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From: wiml@milton.u.washington.edu (William Lewis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Prototyping
Summary: Shell scripts?
Message-ID: <13448@milton.u.washington.edu>
Date: 25 Dec 90 00:33:44 GMT
References: <1990Dec23.020711.22930@investor.pgh.pa.us>
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
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In article <1990Dec23.020711.22930@investor.pgh.pa.us> rbp@investor.pgh.pa.us (Bob Peirce #305) writes:
>Can clicking on a button or whatever run a shell script or must it run
>Objective C code?  This is doubly important for the simple reason that I
>don't know zip about Objective C and I suspect it will take a while to
>learn.

  Well, clicking on a button must run Obj-C code, but that code could
just be a system() call or something. Objective-C is a superset of
plain old ANSI C, and in fact Interface Builder will generate a
'skeleton' for you so you don't even have to use Obj-C features at all
if you don't want to do anything complicated involving the GUI.
(Actually, it seems to me it should be possible to write an application
that just loads a specified .NIB file, and accepts target messages from
objects, calling shell scripts as appropriate --- it could be used with
multiple .NIB files -- sort of a graphical shell... Hmmmm ...)


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