Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!samsung!munnari.oz.au!uniwa!fennel.cc.uwa.oz.au!a_dent From: a_dent@fennel.cc.uwa.oz.au Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer Subject: Re: AppMaker Message-ID: <1991Jan22.215314.2807@fennel.cc.uwa.oz.au> Date: 22 Jan 91 13:53:14 GMT References: <218@genco.bungi.com> <1991Jan20.151151.22107@ida.liu.se> Distribution: comp Organization: University of Western Australia Lines: 32 In article <1991Jan20.151151.22107@ida.liu.se>, c90davby@odalix.ida.liu.se (David Byers) writes: > rad@genco.bungi.com (Bob Daniel) writes: > >>AppMaker is by Bowers Development, (508) 369-8175. The advantage of >>it over Prototyper is the clean code it generates. This advantage of >>Prototyper is that you can try out the prototype while in Prototyper >>where AppMaker doesn't have that ability. The code that Prototyper >>generates is almost worthless to me. I like to use Prototyper to >>simply prototype but never use the poor code it generates. AppMaker >>on the other hangenerates nice clean code and lets you work in your >>own style then being forced to use a certain method (as in Proto). > > I agree that Prototyper generates worthless code. After having bought > it, I used it once, then went back to writing from scratch. The I second that!! I'm only using version 2.0 (suspect that's OLD, I bought it off a pal who gave up on Pascal & took up Hypercard) and have just found it generates lovely things like calls to TENew all over the place, but never disposes those handles!!! The only nice thing I can say about the Prototyping feature is that it gives you a good idea what your dialogs will look like, and just pips ResEdit for ease of constructing them. I too am interested in hearing how far back the upgrade to AppMaker deal covers and would also like opinions on Appmaker's ability to generate code for the THINK Class Libraries. Andy Dent A.D. Software phone 09 249 2719 Mac & VAX programmer 94 Bermuda Dve, Ballajura a_dent@fennel.cc.uwa.oz Western Australia 6066 a_dent@fennel.cc.uwa.oz.AU (international)