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- Subject: Re: Kudos and Q's
- Sent: 5/26/96 9:42 PM
- Received: 5/28/96 8:25 AM
- From: Henri Lamiraux, lamiraux@apple.com
- Reply-To: ODF Interest, ODF-Interest@CILabs.ORG
- To: OpenDoc Development Framework Discussion List, ODF-Interest@CILabs.
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- >// would be nice if I didn't have to think about FW_gInstance
- >FW_CCursor gBrowseCursor(kBrowseCursor, FW_gInstance);
- >
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- I look a the code and it looks like your are right, I should have the
- default value be FW_gInstance instead of NULL.
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- >
- >The meta-question is: if I use SOM directly, will my source code be
- >cross-platform compatible (I know it probably is for OS/2, but what about
- >the $20,000 question, Windows95/NT?).
- >
- It will be cross-platform as long as you don't call any Macintosh
- specific API.
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- >The first more pragmatic question is: I don't really care about the "S",
- >".xh" and ".xih" files that are the output of the SOM compiler, do I? This
- >is just stuff to placate the linker and bind my calls, right?
- >
- .xh and .xih are just like .h files. You need the client of your library
- to include the .xh file in order to call methods of your library. I am
- not the best expert in SOM. I'll let someone else explain that to you.
-
- >The second more pragmatic question is: Metrowerks CW9 binds ".idl" with the
- >"SOMObjects TS" CodeWarrior plugin, does this mean the Finance SOM example
- >could be reworked so it doesn't need the MPW make file (nb, the MPW
- >'script' file)?
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- Yes, you just need Toolserver.
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- Henri Lamiraux lamiraux@apple.com
- Apple Computer, Inc. OpenDoc(tm) Development Framework
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