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From: eht@f.word.cs.cmu.edu (Eric Thayer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Who will buy the NeXT
Keywords: NeXT
Message-ID: <7226@pt.cs.cmu.edu>
Date: 6 Dec 89 14:26:08 GMT
References: <964@abvax.UUCP> <132@kgw2.UUCP>
Organization: Carnegie-Mellon University, CS/RI
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In article <132@kgw2.UUCP> dennisg@kgw2.UUCP (Dennis Glatting) writes:
>1. lack of coordination in the documentation area.  we're constantly
>   having to try things to determine their effect.  also we have to
>   tear through the stuff in /usr/include to find things, like what's
>   the difference between port_t and port_name_t.
>
I'll second this one.  I have been trying to write a ScrollView which will
take multiple ClipViews and have multiple vertical Scrollers.  I'm using 
it to display data time aligned with a sound (for checking DSP
algorithms, etc.  Also, you could build a ScrollingSound which uses several
lines to display the sound with this class.
I've had to write a number of prototype programs to test out things which
were either unclear or lacking in the documentation.  I know this has
slowed progress, but nevertheless, things are progressing well.


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Eric H. Thayer      School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon
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