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From: jwz@teak.berkeley.edu (Jamie Zawinski)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ti.explorer
Subject: Re: Mac toolbox
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Date: 13 Oct 89 19:51:58 GMT
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I've only had a few days experience with a MicroExplorer, but the
programming interface seemed to me to have some very great flaws.
Probably the most absolutely insane thing I discovered was that you
can't use :DRAW-LINE, etc to draw in color!  Come on, guys!  That's
what flavors are for - hiding the implementation specifics.  There
should be a flavor of window which hides the mac toolbox calls.  If
such a thing existed, then peoply wouldn't have to thing about
"using" the mac toolbox - they would get it for free.

User-generated resize and close events should just send the
appropriate messages.

Things like file requesters could be implemented by (for example) a
flavor of window that specialized the :PROMPT-AND-READ method.

And also, the manuals say that you can't warp the mouse on a
microexplorer because the mac hardware doesn't let you...  Is this
really true?  I owned a mac about five years ago, and (unless it was
just a dream) I had a program that would record and play back mouse
motions (i.e., it warped the mouse).

		-- Jamie