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<div class="left_inner_box_heading"><h1>[MD1] AppMaker CD #12</h1></div>
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<p>Grantham, NH - August 1, 1999 - Bowers Development announced that it is now<br />
shipping AppMaker CD #12. It is in the mail to all current subscribers,<br />
domestic and international.</p>
<p>"Thanks again to user feedback, we've worked with real-world applications<br />
to find ways for AppMaker to do more of the programming job," said Spec<br />
Bowers, President of Bowers Development.</p>
<p>- The generated code for modeless dialogs is more complete and automatic.<br />
Without any handwritten code, a dialog can display data from whichever<br />
window is frontmost or disable itself if no document window is active.</p>
<p>- Users can define global application data and preferences data which will<br />
be instantiated automatically at startup. AppMaker will automatically<br />
create, open, read and write a Preferences file.</p>
<p>- Generated applications call NavServices, if it is available, instead of<br />
Standard File. The generated code is "Carbon"-ready.</p>
<p>- This release adds support for the few Appearance controls not previously<br />
supported: the WindowHeader, WindowListViewHeader, Placard, and UserPane.</p>
<p>- Tools Plus is once again well supported. The Tools Plus Pro libraries +<br />
framework is a popular programming tool that simplifies programming and<br />
accelerates development. It supports all standard user interface elements<br />
and popular extras like floating pallettes, picture buttons, and a 3D look<br />
with or without the Appearance Manager. Applications created with Tools<br />
Plus Pro run on almost any Macintosh and Mac OS as far back as System 6.</p>
<p>Said Steve Makohin, president of Water's Edge Software and primary engineer<br />
of Tools Plus Pro, "[this is] especially neat. The project looks like a<br />
ready-to-go C++/Tools Plus project that inherits the advantages of Tools<br />
Plus, plus the additional advantages of a visual application designer/code<br />
generator."</p>
<p>- AppMaker #12 was tested with Metrowerks CW Pro 4 and with pre-release<br />
versions of Pro 5. The Bowers web page has a minor update for AppMaker to<br />
support the final release of Pro 5.</p>
<p>About AppMaker -<br />
AppMaker is a programming tool that makes it faster and easier to make a<br />
Macintosh application - not just the user interface, but also the<br />
functional code. With AppMaker you create the menus, windows, dialogs and<br />
their contents by clicking and dragging to arrange what you want on-screen.<br />
You also point and click to declare data structures and to connect UI items<br />
to data items. AppMaker creates resources to describe your design, and<br />
generates "human, professional quality code" in your choice of either<br />
procedural or object-oriented programming languages.</p>
<p>More than a GUI Builder -<br />
AppMaker's generated code uses the Model-View-Controller (MVC) paradigm.<br />
The Model is composed of data classes and data items which represent the<br />
application's content. The View and Controller are UI items which display<br />
and modify the Model's data.</p>
<p>The MVC paradigm and the Model component in particular, let AppMaker<br />
generate much more complete code than most other GUI builders. An example<br />
of this is the enhanced support for modeless dialogs. The conventional<br />
approach would be to write code by hand to respond to window activate<br />
events and then stuff data into whichever modeless dialogs happened to be<br />
open. The AppMaker user simply points and clicks to connect modeless<br />
dialogs to the document data. AppMaker automatically generates the code<br />
that would have had to be written by hand.<br />
Pricing and Availability -<br />
AppMaker CD #12 is available now from DevDepot,<br />
<a href="http://www.devdepot.com/" title="http://www.devdepot.com/">http://www.devdepot.com/</a>, or from Bowers Development,<br />
<a href="http://members.aol.com/bowersdev/" title="http://members.aol.com/bowersdev/">http://members.aol.com/bowersdev/</a>. The $199 price includes a one-year<br />
subscription.</p>
<p>About Bowers Development -<br />
Bowers Development was formed in 1989 to develop programmer productivity tools.</p>
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