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From: hildreth@cg-atla.UUCP (Lon Hildreth)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Prototyper
Message-ID: <7472@cg-atla.UUCP>
Date: 27 Jul 89 21:37:31 GMT
References: <89072022020433@masnet.uucp> <7443@cg-atla.UUCP> <1009@adobe.UUCP>
Reply-To: hildreth@cg-atla.UUCP (Lon Hildreth)
Organization: Agfa Compugraphic Division
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In article <1009@adobe.UUCP> bezanson@adobe.UUCP (Brian Bezanson) writes:
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>I haven't had a lot of errors - try version 2.1
In fact, I just got version 2.1.  I re-did what I had done before and it
did not crash at all.  I don't see how they could have released 2.0, but
so far, at least, 2.1 seems OK.

>To change a windows name/type, select the menu option or type command-W to
>change them.
>
Ah yes.  Several people have pointed this out.  I just missed the Window Info.
I retract my statement on this.  However, I still would like to be able to
change the name when I have the window name selected.  My instinct is to do it
there via Get Info, but that doesn't do it.  You have to open the window and
select Window Info.  OK, you can do it, but I'd like a different interface.

>The demo of AppMaker didn't impress me because the interface and features
>of ProtoTyper were nicer (tool palatte, grid for drags). In this way,
>ProtoTyper is a nicer version of ResEdit for cleaning up dialogs. I use
>ProtoTyper more for the resource creation and building demos. I haven't
>seen AppMaker have the ability to produce a runtime demo.

OK, another interface peference.  AppMaker's tools are in a menu.  But I
like the fact that once you select a tool you don't have to go back to the
menu and pick it again if you want to create the same type of item.  (What
do I mean by that?)  Say you pick the radio button tool.  You can then go
click the mouse three times in you dialog and you have three radio buttons.
In Prototyper, you have to go back and pick the radio button tool for each
radio button you want to create.

AppMaker by itself cannot produce a runtime demo.  I admit that's a nice
feature of Prototyper.  However, AppMaker can produce C and Pascal code
for MPW and Think that can be easily compiled and linked to create an
application that can then be used as a prototype that can be easily
distributed.  Of course, Prototyper can do that too, so I'm not really
sure why I mentioned it.




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