Remote-controlling Symantec Visual Architect: a TCL application with live animation, built over the bridge

Mon, 31 Aug 2026 13:15:30 +0200

Symantec Visual Architect (1994, part of Symantec C++ 7) is a first-generation GUI builder: you draw the interface, wire commands in dialogs, and a generator writes C++ classes for the THINK Class Library. The question behind this experiment: does that workflow survive complete remote control — from an empty project to a running application, without a hand on the guest’s mouse or keyboard, and with one demand the generator cannot meet by itself: a live animation playing inside the generated window?

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Remote-controlling Symantec Visual Architect: a TCL application with live animation, built over the bridge