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- Item 2951766 19-June-88 19:11
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- From: WILSON6 Wilson, Dave - Personal Concepts
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- To: MACAPP$ MacApp Interest List
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- Sub: Building Block Question
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- Hi Folks,
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- What is the best way to choose the location of a building block that I want to
- use from many different MacApp programs. I am referring to a Unit like UTEView,
- except that it is not part of standard MacApp.
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- The choices seem to be:
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- 1. Place a copy of the Unit in each application's source code folder. This is
- wasteful, and makes it hard to update as new versions of the Unit are
- developed.
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- 2. Place the Unit in the "MacApp Source Files" folder. This is dangerous, since
- I often throw away the whole MacApp folder, when new versions are released.
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- 3. Place the Unit in it's own folder, inside the MPW folder. The problem is
- that I have to specify path names to this Unit in the Pascal USES statement,
- and in the Make files. I can handle the Make file path name by defining another
- path name as a Shell variable in User Startup. How can I handle the USES
- pathnames without hard-wiring them in each source code file that USES my
- building block?
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- Any suggestions would be appreciated.
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- Dave
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