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- From: jsp@uts.amdahl.com (James Preston)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer,comp.sys.mac.misc
- Subject: Re: Opinions on THINK Reference?
- Message-ID: <72dp03Az81Cp00@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com>
- Date: 12 Sep 92 05:31:40 GMT
- References: <1992Sep6.152213.12596@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu> <1992Sep8.073142.14811@tdb.uu.se>
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- Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA
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- matsb@tdb.uu.se (Mats Bredell) writes:
-
- }I'm using THINK Reference and I think it's very good. But there are some
- }things that keep annoying me.
-
- }* Sometimes the links (when you click on a highlighted word to get more info)
- } doesn't work. It takes you somewhere completely different. The same thing
- } happens when you click on a link to see what it's about, and then want to
- } go back. The back links also fail quite often.
-
- I have never experienced this problem, not even once, and I use THINK
- Reference a LOT.
-
- }* Some of the info in THINK Reference is wrong. There are bugs in the docs,
- } and this can keep you searching for programming bugs for weeks! You still
- } need the full IM manuals.
-
- Yes, there are a lot of bugs in there, but most of them are not serious,
- more along the lines of typos. And THINK Reference was not meant to be
- a replacement for Inside Mac, just a supplement to it. I think they did
- an amazing job of craming that much information into 2.1 megabytes.
-
- }* The THINK Reference usually uses a lot of bad programming techinques in
- } the docs and programming examples. They use a lot of constant values
- } instead of symbolic names, they access low memory globals, and in some
- } places even encourages the programmer to access low memory globals
- } instead of using supported toolbox calls.
-
- I wouldn't say they encourage it, they're just informing you that it's
- there. If you choose to bypass the toolbox call, that's your decision.
- More often than not, I find the examples tremendously helpful. More
- than once, I have incorporated a piece of their sample code into my
- program (and I never directly access any low-memory globals).
-
- --James Preston
-