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- Item 8036710 11-Jan-91 07:25PST
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- From: BERDAHL Amoco Tech, Eric Berdahl,VAR
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- To: SCHMUCKER1 Schmucker, Kurt
- SHOPWARE Shopware Ed Sys, Donn Leiske,PRT
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- cc: MACAPP.TECH$ MacApp Technical
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- Sub: Re[3]: Potential First Time Us
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- Kurt,
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- Hmmm, it seems we have conflicting experience. This is interesting, but I from
- what you’ve written I think we agree on some points and others are left kinda
- fuzzy.
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- If my previous link was misleading on the topic of getting prototype apps out,
- let me correct the error. MacApp is a great way to get a basic version of your
- app up and demonstrable, regardless of your previous Mac experience. As you
- noted, it doesn't solve all your problems, but it gets you some easy quick
- results, give you a structure for finishing the rest, and gives you lots of
- stuff for free. Your will also avoid some of the classic mac programming
- problems (like undo).
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- However, to finish the app and get it “production ready” my experience with new
- developers is that they have to dig into the Macintosh anyway because MacApp’s
- framework doesn’t extend far enough to do everything they want. Hence the
- added time to the project I alluded to previously.
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- Compared to programming a Mac application “from scratch,” MacApp saves you alot
- of time out of the box getting the app up. However, for that first one, I find
- that the programmer eventually will have to learn some subtleties of the
- toolbox and integrate it into a MacApp application.
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- Rather than argue the point, though, I’m interested in hearing what the
- community at large feels about this topic. Does MacApp help you for that first
- app? If so, how far did you go before hitting the wall?
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- Keeping an open mind (and an open soup kitchen),
- Eric Berdahl
- Amoco Technology Company
- AppleLink: BERDAHL
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