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From: paul@surf.sics.bu.oz (Paul Davis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Think C Classes
Message-ID: <1244@surf.sics.bu.oz>
Date: 5 Aug 90 22:53:22 GMT
References: <32414@cup.portal.com>
Reply-To: paul@surf.sics.bu.oz (Paul Davis)
Organization: School of Info. & Computing Science, Bond University, Australia.
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In article <32414@cup.portal.com> dbw@cup.portal.com (Dale B Walker) writes:
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|I'm interested in hearing people's experiences with the Think C Class Library.
|I'm starting to write an Application, and it looks like it could save
|me alot of time.  I'd like to hear from people who are using the
|libraries - are there any problems, how hard it is to get started,
|etc...
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I started using the TCL in January and I love it.  It takes a while to
get the hang of the command chain, display coordinates and other strange
new ideas.  What I've found is that whenever my initial reaction has been
_This is a stupid way to do this_ my later conclusion has been _This is
smarter than I thought_, so give it time.

A couple hints...  Use the command facility to pass all actions, even
those not generated by menus.  Let your application class route non-
display commands to objects which aren't in the chain.  There are more
coordinate systems than you'll know what to do with.  In addition to
global and port coordinates, there are pane coordinates (for the frame)
and panorama coordinates (for objects in scrollbars).  CPanorama bounds
are in panorama coordinates which are scaled by your scrolling units.

Confused?

Have fun.

paul
Paul Davis                        Paul_Davis@beach.bu.oz.au
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