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- Path: sparky!uunet!portal!cup.portal.com!Lee_Robert_Willis
- From: Lee_Robert_Willis@cup.portal.com
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: Amiga Application Framework
- Message-ID: <69068@cup.portal.com>
- Date: Sat, 7 Nov 92 17:10:57 PDT
- Organization: The Portal System (TM)
- Distribution: world
- References: <hemmer.02m9@hemmer.adsp.sub.org>
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- >In article <68764@cup.portal.com> Lee_Robert_Willis@cup.portal.com writes:
- >
- >> ABSTRACT:
- >>
- >> I'm trying to develop an application framework skeleton that will
- >> work for 99% of Amiga Intuition programs. Before I invest too
- >> much time in this, I'd like to know if this has already been done.
- >
- >Well, we have ToolMaker and GadToolsBox, both of which are far from
- >perfect.
-
- NO NO NO NO! Read it again. I'm NOT looking for an Interface builder.
- I'm looking for documentation on the 'best' software architecture.
- i.e. how (whether by hand or by program) to structure one Amiga application
- so that one can easily modify it, and add all the niceties (Multiple
- screens, projects, ARexx, Font indepedence, etc.) that is recommend
- in the Amiga User Interface Style Guide.
-
- >
- >> But (and this _is_ something of a criticism) I've never seen any C= document
- >> that does tell you the "best" way to structure a full-blown application to
- >> avoid these pitfalls. (I'm not a developer, just a hacker. Perhaps C= has
- >> such a thing for developers.)
- >>
- >> So has anyone heard of this?
- >
- >Yes! David N. Junod has written 55308 bytes about 'Modular Event Processing',
- >which presents an excellent scheme for processing events from multiple
- >sources! The document is in some older AmigaMail issue, propably in some
- >1989 issue.
-
- Can someone tell me which issue? That's at least a start.
-
- Lee Lee_Robert_Willis@cup.portal.com
-