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From: David Apfelbaum <da0g+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: Possible projects
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Excerpts from misc: 1-Oct-93 Possible projects by Don Yacktman@alaska.et.b
>And again, let's start hearing about code. What contributions
>could/would you make? What would you like to see?
At the top of my list is Group, a IBPalatized List object. (Which, in
turn, will probably make use of a Simple-string object and my ListView
object. (ListView is a ScrollView with a Matrix as it's docView. It's
very (*very*) simple, and based off the NeXT miniExample
CellScrollView.))
Group can be though of loosely as a 1 to n message filter. It has the
ability to forward a given message to all the objects inside it that
respond to that message.
Then there is QualifiedDBModule, a IBPalatized DBModule subclass that
has the ability to dynamically build a qualifier based on the status of
display UI objects that respond to [my] Qualifications protocol.
Unfortunately, I no longer have access to a database engine, so
development on this is currently frozen. But I'd like to throw it out
there and see if anyone else wants to play with it...
Following this, I have a long list of other objects ranging from a
FormattedTextField class that would take limitted input to a
background-view class that would let us draw nice lines in nibs without
using a Box object (which is just plain gross!) to nano-examples to,
well, let me dig around for my list...
As for releasing these... I'd like to do both a "thick" and a "thin"
release. The "thin" release would be just the objects themselves. The
"thick" version would include the current versions of all other objects
involved in a particular object. To facilitate this, I was thinking of
making every object I write into a subproject. And adding a "make lib"
ability to those subprojects...
On the down side, I have had the misfortune to lose my job in a
particularly gross and unpleasent mannor. (My previous employer decided
to implement a no-competition contract that would have prevented me from
working for any other commercial software developer for a period of 5
years after leaving his employment. When I refused to sign, I was
immediately fired. He then turned around and lied his ass off to the
unemployment folks, claiming that I had just "walked off the job, not
saying anything to anyone". And he has refused to pay my final
paycheck. And he has (thank god, unsuccessfully) attempted to cancel my
second to last paycheck.
At the moment, my first priority has to be straight survival. As my
life settles down, I will be able to get more and more back into
NeXTStep work...
-David Apfelbaum.