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- From: lane@sumex-aim.stanford.edu (Christopher Lane)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
- Subject: Re: Icon, or equivalent under 3.0
- Date: 12 Nov 1992 21:52:58 GMT
- Organization: Stanford University
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- Reply-To: lane@sumex-aim.stanford.edu (Christopher Lane)
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- When I found Icon 2.1 to be unusable under 3.0, I dug into it to find out why.
- The crashes I experienced were due to a dynamically loaded *.nib segment trying
- to instantiate an NXColorSlider view when the NXColorSlider object was
- undefined in 3.0 (not even for backward compatibility). Several attempts by me
- to splice the missing *.o file back into Icon or the shared system library were
- unsuccessful. (Still may be possible.)
-
- Since I can't seem to get IconBuilder to so something as simple as Cut & Paste
- in a reasonable way, I was stuck. Until I got the entirely evil idea of
- resurrecting Icon 1.0. It runs fine on B&W bitmaps, but not color. (Without
- NXColorSlider, Icon 2.1 wasn't going to do much with color anyway.) I also
- hacked the main menu with SegHoarker and InterfaceBuilder to bring it more in
- line with the 2.1 version. Better than IconBuilder for B&W, for the moment.
-
- Anything to save a buck,
-
- - Christopher
-