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- Item 8315890 11-Jan-91 12:26PST
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- From: GER.XSE0096 Germany - Ciechowski Computer,IDV
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- To: SHOPWARE Shopware Ed Sys, Donn Leiske,PRT
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- cc: SCHMUCKER1 Schmucker, Kurt
- BERDAHL Amoco Tech, Eric Berdahl,VAR
- MACAPP.TECH$ MacApp Technical
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- Sub: Re[3]: Potential First Time…
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- Donn, Eric & Kurt,
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- within the last few months we decided to re-program our main-product for the
- Mac, a machine with a growing market in Germany.
- In May 1990 I received an fx with MPW 3.1. I started out the conventional way
- of dicovering a new system, read through the Inside-Macintosh Volumes, made
- some test-programs etc.
- As I was used to create GEM-applications in C, the only problem was (and still
- is) sometimes to find the correct function to implement a specific behaviour.
- This is - as always - a matter of time, until you´re really familiar with your
- OS.
- In June 1990 I started to get familiar with the C++ language. Some new thoughts
- (about objects etc.) had to be planted into my brain, but by October I thought
- it was time to start with my work.
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- As the program I´m currently working on has to be ready for presentation by
- March 1991 I had to decide whether I wanted to create a completely new set of
- System-Tools for MacOS or use the MacApp Application-frame. I did choose
- MacApp.
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- I never liked to waste my time in rewriting code that had been written for
- hundreds of times before. I like to use a third-party ISAM-database, so why
- shouldn´t I use a third-party frame ?
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- Kurt, you´re right because it is not neccessary to know the MacOS-Backround in
- case you want to produce a MacApp Application. MacApp supplies the whole
- user-interface in a easy to handle way, BUT YOU HAVE TO BE FAMILIAR WITH
- MACAPP.
- That makes my work sometimes very hard. I´m glad to be able to put my questions
- to the MacApp.Tech$-Discussion. Without this facility and the answers of
- engaged and experienced MacApp-Programmers I´d still try to find out how to
- implement even very simple functions.
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- This is, why Eric is right as well. MacApp is shipped with a large paper-
- documtation, but there are only examples for the usage of the most general
- classes included. The HyperCard Class & Method-Reference cannot replace a
- complete reference-manual.
- If you´re new to MacApp you don´t even know what the meaning of and
- relationship between the classes is like.
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- Dependend on your needs, your personal experience etc. you have to cope with a
- learning-periode that might be shortened in case you visit one of these
- courses.
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- By now, after three months work with MacApp I´d say that even the first MacApp-
- Application is implemented faster than any other C++ App, as case you had to do
- the work for a MacOS-Toolbox instead of learning how to use MacApp.
- Within the next three months our project will be completed.
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- Ingo Ciechowski
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