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From: wilkins@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Mark Wilkins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Programming for 7.0
Message-ID: <8616@jarthur.Claremont.EDU>
Date: 24 Sep 90 03:15:36 GMT
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In article <1990Sep24.021916.16737@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> news@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU writes:
>I have written programs for the Mac using IM vols. 1-4. Are there going to 
>be radically new manuals for System 7.0, so that I should wait for them
>before writing any more software, or, if I don't want my pograms to do
>anything the present sytem can't do (I'm not interested in IAC), is it 
>ok to go on using IM?  Thanks.


  Inside Mac Vol. 6 covers System 7.0.

  As before, if you follow the compatibility guidelines you will be O.K.
under System 7.  I'm running System 7 right now and NOTHING which I'm
running takes it into account specifically except StuffIt Classic.

  IMHO, "not being interested in IAC" isn't enough justification for not
supporting it.  Every action your user takes should be supported via
AppleEvents, and your program should send those events to itself when the
user chooses a menu item.  If you do not do this, you will be cutting
yourself out of AppleScript scripting language when it arrives, and your 
program will either have to be revised or no longer be used.

  Note that "I'm not able to get ahold of System 7.0 because it's
unreleased" IS a good excuse for not implementing AppleEvents, and that's
the situation I suspect you're in.

-- Mark Wilkins
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