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From: cfejm@ux1.cts.eiu.edu (John Miller)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: AppMaker
Message-ID: <1991Jan22.171604.14212@ux1.cts.eiu.edu>
Date: 22 Jan 91 17:16:04 GMT
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>>>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.
>

             
I just got an e-mail from Spike Bowers (d1721@applelink.apple.com)
who indicates that the tradein covers any version of Prototyper
and the cost is $147.  I plan on taking him up on it.  He'll also
send you a comparison sheet, Prototyper-AppMaker.

(I presume he won't mind my posting this)

--
John

John Miller
Music Theory
Eastern Illinois University
CFEJM@UX1.CTS.EIU.EDU