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From: whipple@sun.acs.udel.edu (Peter Adams Whipple)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: XVT - eXtensible Virtual Toolkit -- Any Experiences?
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Date: 18 Jan 90 14:22:39 GMT
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Reply-To: whipple@sun.acs.udel.edu (Peter Adams Whipple)
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I have been using XVT for several months and am quite pleased with it.
My primary development machine is a Mac SE/30 and Think C with a Model
70 for Windows work.  The biggest problem I had initially with
transferring between environments was pointer size conflicts (single
pointer size on the Mac vs. near and far on PCs).  Once I learned to
deal with and anticipate that, I've had no problems with the
transportable code.  I also got the Whitewater Resources Toolkit for
Windows to complement ResEdit on the Mac and was glad I did.

I would recommend XVT even if one was not planning a multi-platform
application.  XVT takes care of a lot of the niggling details that makes
Windows and the Mac difficult to learn in the first place, so a
programmer programming in one of those environments for the first time
can be productive much sooner.


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