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From: dcw@goldilocks.lcs.mit.edu (David C. Whitney)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: MacApp -> GSApp?
Message-ID: <1990Jul25.214526.8462@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu>
Date: 25 Jul 90 21:45:26 GMT
Sender: daemon@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu (Lucifer Maleficius)
Reply-To: dcw@goldilocks.lcs.mit.edu (David C. Whitney)
Organization: MIT Spoken Language Systems Group
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I've been doing a lot of work with MacApp lately, and it's starting to
grow on me. The concept is great. For those who don't know, MacApp is
a complete shell of an application written in Object Pascal. One
simply (ha!) has to write the code that makes an application
specifically his/hers. A full-blown application which is compliant
with every nook and cranny of the OS is much easier to pump out with
MacApp than it otherwise would be.

Anyway, I was wondering if any such thing is in the works for us GS
programmers. Having something which practically abstracts away
EVERYTHING makes writing the actual program code that DOES something
much easier to deal with (this is the primary reason I haven't done
any GS-specific programming - I have no great desire to read through
1200-1500 pages of manuals).

Also, having something like this would make porting GS <-> Mac
ridiculously easy.

Any words?

--
Dave Whitney                         A graduate in Computer Science from MIT
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My employer pays me well. This, however, does not mean he agrees with me.
I wrote Z-Link & BinSCII. Send me bug reports. I use a //GS. Send me Tech Info.