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- Item forwarded by PETTUS.C to HAWLEY1 RIDENOUR1
-
- Item 3667212 19-May-89 18:00
-
- From: D2086 Efficient Field Svc, C Faith, PRT
-
- To: BURBECK.S Burbeck, Steve
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- cc: MACAPP.TECH$ MACAPP Tech
-
- Sub: Will MacApp support old Ver.s
-
- This is a copy of a message I received on Compuserve.
-
- It is a valid question. I am reasonably sure that the MacApp team will do the
- right thing in the event that it is deemed necessary to change the format of
- MacApps internal document structure.
-
- ___________________________________________________________________________
-
- 19-May-89 06:13:14
- Sb: INHERITED DoRead
- Fm: John Jeppson
- To: Curtis Faith
-
- I understand that I should allow MacApp to write/read its "own data" in
- document files, in addition to the specific data unique to my application:
-
- TMyDocument.DoWrite(aRefNum: INTEGER); OVERRIDE;
- BEGIN
- INHERITED DoWrite(aRefNum);
- -- write my data --;
- END;
-
- and
-
- TMyDocument.DoRead(aRefNum: INTEGER; forPrinting: BOOLEAN); OVERRIDE;
- BEGIN
- INHERITED DoRead(aRefNum, forPrinting);
- -- read my data --;
- END;
-
- so, the great day comes when I offer an upgrade to my application, compiled, of
- course, with a new version of MacApp. But my customer will have old data files
- (made with the earlier version of my application) which he wants to use with
- the new upgraded application. Will the new upgraded MacApp know that
- "INHERITED DoRead" is dealing with an obsolete format for its mysterious
- internal data and deal with the situation automatically. How will it do that?
- Or am I going to end up supplying conversion routines for data whose contents I
- never understood when they were written. (If the latter, then there seems
- little point to the game.)
-
- _____________________________________________________________________________
- What is the official word? Can I give John assurance that MacApp will support
- older formats for its internal documents structure in the event that they
- change?
-
- - Curtis Faith
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-