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- Item 5262649 14-Nov-90 17:57PST
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- From: ALGER KPMG Peat Marwick, Jeff Alger,VCA
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- To: D3861 Electronics for Imaging,Avi Bar,PRT
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- cc: MACAPP.TECH$ MacApp Technical
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- Sub: Re: views in system dialogs
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- Tim,
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- There is a slow evolution taking place - more like ideas being dragged out the
- door scraping their fingernails on the carpet to stay. The evolution is to
- subsume more and more of the Toolbox in pure MacApp code. I see the issue you
- raise as one more example.
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- Originally, there was a sharp distinction drawn between dialogs and "normal"
- windows. Why? Because the Toolbox was written to support developers who
- didn't have a MacApp. In a classic case of the tail wagging the dog, MacApp
- was then originally designed as a class-based implementation of the Dialog
- Manager where dialogs were concerned. Eventually, of course, "anything can be
- a button" became the rule and the Dialog Manager per se became irrelevant to
- MacApp, as all of its features and then some were developed for MacApp
- independently as part of the TView hierarchy.
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- The Standard File Manager is another case in point, but at an earlier stage of
- evolution. Is there anything that this Manager provides that couldn't be done
- easier from within MacApp? Not really. Eventually, the entire Standard File
- facility must become as obsolete in a MacApp environment as DITLs, DLOGs and
- the List Manager are today. Replacing it entirely is the correct solution; in
- the meantime, hacks come and go.
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- It would make a great Classroom or private effort to go ahead and grab this
- bull by the horns. Unless, of course, the good folks at Apple are already at
- it for the next version of MacApp?!
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- Regards,
- Jeff Alger
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