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- Item 5262887 20-Oct-89 07:08
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- From: LAI1 Lai, Edmund
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- To: MACAPP.TECH$ MACAPP Tech
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- Sub: RE Re Next IB vs ViewEdit
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- The Following is a personal opinion.
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- Steve Burbeck wrote
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- >As you correctly point out, a fundamental stumbling block to describing
- >behavior in ViewEdit is that Object Pascal is missing some basic power that is
- >available in Objective-C. It needs the ability at runtime to send a message to
- >an object where the message name is specified by data (e.g., a string in from
- >'view' resource or -- consider the possibilities -- a string entered by the
- >user!!).
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- Actually there are a lot of run time information available in the MacApp
- runtime, especially if it is under the debug mode so that procedure and method
- name as still embedded as $D strings. What is described above is completely
- doable in the current run time system (that does not mean that it should not be
- made easier by change in compiler or special language tools). Of course to do
- so requires diving into some of the low level stuff, but MacApp provides
- complete source, and Mike Lockwood had written a link describing some of the
- low level stuff, so anyone who wishes to experiment in this area can try it
- themselves.
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