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- Item 3797304 28-May-90 21:58DST
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- From: UK0392 EHN & DIJ Oakley,IDV
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- To: MACAPP.TECH$ MacApp Technical
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- Sub: MacApp & System 7
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- Friends,
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- Looking through the wonderfully amazingly superb System 7.0a9 CD, and looking
- really carefully at the documentation (well, my trial run with it was just long
- enough to demonstrate that all my MacApp 2.0b9 apps ran fine, and for System 7
- to eat both my hard disks - I am glad that I obeyed the instructions!), three
- questions come to mind:
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- 1. In the Help Manager (alias The Balloonist), support is going to DITL
- dialogs, and to plain windows, but what about MacApp's views? It would be a
- shame of we were to lose out to the non-OOP crowd.
-
- 2. Having identified a kernel of 'must-do' matters, like supporting
- AppleEvents, I am left in a quandary - do I hack MacApp to do what I want to in
- preparation for System 7, or do I wait for the MacApp team to produce a more
- general solution in MacApp 2.1? This all starts getting horribly commercial,
- but we naturally want to have our products supporting System 7 the day it comes
- out, and clearly the MacApp team are going to have their work cut out getting
- 2.1 ready in time for us to port over to it, etc. Without wishing to either
- press for undecided dates, or to harry the great guys doing the work, which is
- likely to be the best course, given that in the first instance, we will not be
- after very extensive support for the new Managers, simply enough to keep us up
- in the front.
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- 3. I note Apple's exhortation to ensure that software runs under both Systems
- 6 and 7. With the greatest respect, I think that most folk are going to be
- very hard-pressed to achieve this, and I look forward with interest to see
- whether MacApp 2.1 manages to do both well. If you are going to offer really
- good use of System 7, then you are virtually going to have to have a great deal
- of new code to do so, and it is thus more efficient to have two separate
- versions of your application. We are fortunate in that our vertical markets
- already all have machines with at least 2 megs RAM, and most users have at
- least 4 meg IIcx hardware, so most should go over to System 7 shortly after
- release. But then the folk who are not likely to go over so rapidly are the
- ones with 1 meg Pluses, and small if any hard disks, who are hardly going to be
- pleased to receive applications which can run under 6 or 7, about 60% of whose
- code is of no use to them. Are others thinking the same? Given the fairly
- extensive reworking required to MacApp 2.0 to have extensive System 7 support,
- is it feasible for MacApp to do both well (please, not both indifferently!)?
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- Regards,
- Howard.
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