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From: laird@chinet.chi.il.us (Laird J. Heal)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: New Apple Self-Help Tools
Message-ID: <1991Apr19.100952.8759@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 19 Apr 91 10:09:52 GMT
Article-I.D.: chinet.1991Apr19.100952.8759
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Yes, that "announcement" was in extraordinarily poor taste.  I am simply
astounded that it was accepted into comp.sys.mac.announce.
 
I stopped subscribing to the APDAlog because it was nothing more than
$20 for Apple to send me their advertisements.  This "Developer Starter
Kit" is nothing more than a similar, $125, version of the same.
 
Even as an Apple Associate you have no access to what is most desperately
needed, namely answers to the not-so-documented questions.  I finally
gave up on my own particular use of Offscreen Pixmaps and wrote a local
version of CopyBits(), limited because I did not need color translation
and because I will write my own scaling/rotation at a later time.  If I
had access to MACDEV like the old days, maybe I could have worked it out;
for the stuff to the screen, I guess I should turn MacsBug loose on
Photoshop...
 
It seems like, as time goes on, the more you pay Apple, the less you get
in return.
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Laird J. Heal                           The Usenet is dead!
Here:  laird@chinet.chi.il.us		Long live the Usenet!