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From: wjs@milton.u.washington.edu (William Jon Shipley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Steve Jobs' demo, was that a new IB?
Message-ID: <11300@milton.u.washington.edu>
Date: 17 Nov 90 08:50:33 GMT
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Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
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On the 20 minute (too short) demo tape of Steve's big unrolling, I noticed
something a little wierd about the way he was hooking up the DBKit.  He
would control-drag FROM a FormCell TO the DBKit.  This seems wierd,
because last I knew this wouldn't give the DBKit any info-- it would just
give the FormCell a pointer to the DBKit, but not vice versa.  Yet,
when he ran the demo he'd made, the DBKit magically filled in all three
FormCells when he did a lookup.

If this wasn't wierd enough, the title on the FormCell automatically got
set to the name of the DBKit field he hooked it up to.  Now, I know I haven't
seen this in 2.0.

However, I've used the 2.0 IB (the pre-release) and I don't recall seeing
either of these features (dragged-to object gets pointer to draggee, FormCell
title set to method it calls).  Maybe I just didn't notice them, maybe I'm
just crazy.  Or, maybe Jobs was using a special IB.

Anyone have any solid information?

-william