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From: wayner@cello.cs.cornell.edu (Peter Wayner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: THINK Pascal problems
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Date: 14 Dec 90 14:24:17 GMT
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blumenau@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Trevor I. Blumenau) writes:

>In article <11394.276747c1@amherst.bitnet> djvelleman@amherst.bitnet writes:
>>I'm having two problems with THINK Pascal 3.0.

>Well, while we're on the topic, I have a few complaints...
>(I own THINK Pascal 2.0, so these may have already been fixed!)

>1) I hate the fact that the observe window does not automatically update
>   when a new entry is added.  You have to do a step (or do a writeln in
>   the instant window) to see the value of the new item.

Just press the "Enter" key. Updates it perfectly.

>2) What's this B.S. with the dialog box that says "Can't find file...
>   Would you like to look for it?"?  This box pops up whenever you move
>   your project and source files to a different path.  That's crazy!
>   If I do as simple a thing as change my hard drive name (or the name
>   of my development folder) nothing compiles.  The source location's
>   path information should be tied to the _project_ so that if you
>   move the project and the source files together nothing get's screwed
>   up.

This is a great help to me when I build a new version in a separate directory.
I sometimes keep using some files and units from the older version and only
make new versions of the old.

>Now that I sound like a complete a..hole, let me say that I really think
>that THINK Pascal is the best investment any Mac user can make.
>Tied with THINK Pascal is THINK C which I don't own, but I've seen 
>in action (great debugger!).  Good job.

>Just a bit of friendly constructive criticism brought to you by:

>Trevor Blumenau
>blumenau@cory.berkeley.edu

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