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- Item 1010867 5-Feb-91 14:24PST
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- From: TSD Encore, The Software Dept,PRT
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- To: MACAPP.TECH$ MacApp Technical
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- Sub: MacApp (lack of) document
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- Attn: MacApp Technical BBS
- SentBy: Ed Ruder
- News via AppleLink™
- MacApp (lack of) documentation…
- TWIMC:
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- We have just started using MacApp (two month veterans), and are close to the
- end of our first MacApp app. We have been pleased with the aspects of Mac
- programming that are handled more or less automagically by MacApp, but we do
- have experienced several major headaches. Menus, scrolling, dialogs, undo,
- file i/o, and other areas are generally very easy to implement in MacApp.
- However, whenever we endeavor to implement something that is not described in
- the tutorial or cookbook, we end up spending hours or days pouring through the
- MA Examples and/or the abysmal MacApp reference materials trying to figure out
- the “right” way to do things. (For example, we tried for days to implement a
- virtual [disk-based, rather than RAM-based] document, couldn’t figure out how
- to do it using MacApp, and ended up writing it ourselves.)
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- In our opinion, while the tutorial, cookbook, and general reference for MacApp
- are good documents, there is NO good in-depth reference for MacApp which
- discusses, in detail, how all of the bells and whistles in MacApp “hang
- together.” We do have one document called “MacApp,” which contains lots of
- release notes, some good descriptions of TView, TApplication, TDocument, and a
- few other classes, but not nearly enough detailed discussion of all of the
- features of the classes, and how to properly use them. More often than not, we
- end up reading the header and/or source files to figure out stuff that isn’t
- covered in the tutorial/cookbook. The HyperCard stacks are somewhat helpful,
- but who wants to run HyperCard all of the time? Also, the stacks are good
- descriptions of the “trees;” what we have needed is a detailed description of
- the “forest.”
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- Anyone out there have similar gripes/insights? Anyone know of the kind of
- documentation that I am talking about?
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- Ed Ruder
- The Software Department/Encore Systems
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