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From: simon@alberta.uucp (Simon Tortike)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Advice: should I go OOp or get example code in C
Summary: C++, Think's classes, plain C
Message-ID: <1989Nov3.155945.4421@alberta.uucp>
Date: 3 Nov 89 15:59:45 GMT
Reply-To: simon@alberta.UUCP (Simon Tortike)
Organization: Petroleum Engg, U of Alberta
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I want to solicit the mac programming community's 
advice on what route I should take here.  I wish to 
enhance a numerical program currently written in Think 
C (DigiGraf) by allowing the viewing and scrolling 
around of pictures, both bitmaps and objects.  Do 
people think it would be easier to find example code 
for this in plain old C (eg, Programmer's extender), or 
to use some of the OOP tools now available.  Is there, 
for example, a class available to read a TIFF, MPNT, or 
PICT file and display it?  If I use OOP, should I buy 
Apples C++, or stick with Think C v4.0?

FYI, I have a MacIIx with plenty of RAM, and already 
own Think C v4.0 and MPW C v3.  I am prepared to 
summarise the answers I get.
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W. Simon Tortike,                         | tel    : 403/492-3338
Dept of Mining, Metallurgical             | fax    : 403/492-7219
      and Petroleum Engineering,          | CDNnet : simon@cs.UAlberta.CA
University of Alberta,                    | uucp   : simon@alberta.uucp
Edmonton, AB, CANADA T6G 2G6.             | 
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W. Simon Tortike,                         | tel    : 403/492-3338
Dept of Mining, Metallurgical             | fax    : 403/492-7219
      and Petroleum Engineering,          | CDNnet : simon@cs.UAlberta.CA