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From: stores@unix.SRI.COM (Matt Mora)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer,comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: MS Basic Help
Keywords: Basic Help
Message-ID: <5275@unix.SRI.COM>
Date: 3 Nov 89 01:02:33 GMT
References: <5007@internal.Apple.COM> <362@sierra.stanford.edu>
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In article <362@sierra.stanford.edu> siegman@sierra.UUCP (Anthony E. Siegman) writes:
>In article <5007@internal.Apple.COM> dales@Apple.COM (Dale Satterfield) writes:

>>I have a friend who is learning to program in basic on a Mac. He is using
>>some version of Microsoft basic. He is having a problem with autonumbering
>>lines. Any help would be appreciated. Please email replies to dale@apple.com.
>>Thanks.
>
>Someone at Apple going OUTSIDE to find help on MS BASIC for the Mac --
>sad!!!
>
>I keep trying to tell people (despite scornful laughter from the
>"BASIC is for kiddies" snobs) that Microsoft QuickBASIC is an
>extremely modern, neat, fast, effective language; and probably THE
>single best all-around Macintosh programming environment for working
>scientists, engineers, and many others who want to program real
>Mac-like applications for the Mac, but have other responsibilities to
>fulfill in life also.

The best part about QuickBasic is that you can write Pure code
resources for any Rom call that is not supported by Quickbasic.

I will be releasing libraries for Quick Basic that lets you 
call most of the major managers in the macintosh rom very
soon. (probably Dec or Jan). Each will be a separate library
package based on the manager that it calls.

I just finished dubugging a major part of what will
be called list manager pkg. Yes the real List Manager
not the stupid brain dead Scrolltext statment. It works
very well.

Also have the Menu manager pkg. This will contain MDEF's
(pattern menu), an automatic Font and Size menu.Get menu
allows you to have the menu stored as a resource instead 
of being hard coded. Popup menus and Hierarchical (yuch)
menus will also be supported. I might even have 
a real edit menu working.

Text edit package will contain all the TE routines that
Microsoft left out. 

Sound manager

There will be a lot of other library routines that
will be available. list of things I might
support is below. Please Email me if you are interested
in these libraries. Also let me know what routines
that you would like to see supported. I will try
 to finish those first.

Some ideas:
OffScreen grafports
Text edit window
Wdefs
Page Set menu command
a faster print manager
animated cursor
get modifiers
Real Edit menu
File Manager
GetAppFiles
GetAppParms

If your interested let me know and
if you have any ides I would like to
hear them.

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Matthew Mora
SRI International                       stores@unix.sri.com
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