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- Item 0677331 27-July-89 11:23
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- From: WILSON6 Wilson, Dave - Personal Concepts
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- To: MACAPP.TECH$ MACAPP Tech
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- Sub: What is hard?
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- Dear MacApp'ers,
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- A student asked me a question that you could be of great help in answering:
- What is hard to do with MacAp 2.0?
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- Obviously, we all know what is easy to do - e.g., drag windows, operate scroll
- bars, open DAs, activate windows, etc. But some thimgs that also should be
- easy seem to be hard, such as handling a Font menu, or handling split windows
- (seeing two different parts of the same view as Excel does). Other things are
- not too hard, but they should perhaps be automatic, such as saving TEXT or PICT
- files to disk.
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- Here are some items already on my list:
- Clipboard support
- PICT decompiling into objects
- Documents
- Handling standard TEXT or PICT file formats
- Saving window/scroll bar positions
- Graphic object manipulation Command objects
- Selection
- Dragging
- Memory management
- Defining mem! and seg! resources
- Having to choose code segments for standard methods
- Menus
- Defining with text, rather than in ViewEdit
- Views
- Type coercion, and bookkeeping for view identifiers with FindSubView
- Debugging
- Having to write Fields methods
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- Most of the items on the list above are annoying but not major obstacles to
- progress. I'd like to hear about more items on that list, but also hear about
- things that you found really hard or confusing - things that significantly
- slowed down your project. Try to limit it to problems that you think others
- might also face - if you are the only one trying to do three-dimensional,
- holograhic view rotation in real-time, then we can't expect MacApp to provide
- automatic support for it.
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- I am not going to publish this list, so you don't have to worry about giving
- MacApp a bad reputation. This is for my own use, but I will share it with the
- MacApp team in case they have the opportunity to address any of the items.
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- Thanks for your help.
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- Dave
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