In response to the link from Pierre Blanquero regarding MacApp’s view size limitation:
MacApp 2.0 will include a new internal view architecture which will support a much bigger view size than the current version. A transcript from the August MacApp Developer’s Association meeting which goes over some details of MacApp 2.0 was printed (with some screen shots) in the “October” issue of the Developer Association newsletter (which the Association tells me was sent out bulk mail in early November).
We plan to release beta version of MacApp 2.0 through APDA in the Spring of 1988.
A subscription to the MacApp Developer’s Association newsletter costs $20 in the US, $30/year outside the U.S. (The Association also sell the MacApp Browser for US$39 + $1.50 U.S. postage or $2.50 overseas postage.) You can contact them via AppleLink at X0501, or by mail at:
MacApp™ Developer’s Association
P.O. Box 23
Everett, WA 98206-0023 USA
In response to Alexander Perlis’ link about MacApp, C++, and Smalltalk:
Several developers are currently writing application using MacApp and Object Pascal for their user interface code and calling algorithms written in [transportable] C.
We plan to release a beta version of MPW 3.0, including full C++, through APDA, in the Spring of 1988. At that time we also plan to release interfaces to MacApp written in Minimal C++ (formerly C+-). MacApp programs should be able to take advantage of all of C++, even though MacApp itself will still be implemented in Object Pascal. For more a little more information, see the C++ article in the July-August issue of the MacApp Developer’s Association newsletter.
In 1988 we also plan to release an interpreted Smalltalk system with a Macintosh user interface and access to MacApp classes translated into Smalltalk.
