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From: amanda@intercon.uu.net (Amanda Walker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Macintosh handles
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Date: 20 Jul 89 19:42:47 GMT
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In article <8071@hoptoad.uucp>, tim@hoptoad.uucp (Tim Maroney) writes:
> TextEdit does a lot of really nice stuff, and I
> just wish they'd make it useful for something other than the Dialog
> Manager.

Yup.  It's funny sometimes.  Apple provides this nice Toolbox so that
no one has to reinvent the wheel for the user interface, but everybody
still has to reinvent (incompatible) wheels for:

	Non-trivial text editing
	Indexed files / simple databases
	Scrolling selection lists and tables

And so on.  I realize that Apple can't be all things to all people, but
sometimes I wish that they did as complete a job on some of these things
as they did on Quickdraw or MacApp.  I guess you can tell what things are
more fun to work on...

Grumble.

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Amanda Walker
InterCon Systems Corporation
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