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From: ari@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Ari Halberstadt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Does MacApp support core events, edition mgr, stationary, PPC toolbox?
Summary: Or will MacApp support these things?
Message-ID: <1991Apr30.161138.10273@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>
Date: 30 Apr 91 16:11:38 GMT
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Does, or will, MacApp support the things mentioned in the subject
line?  It seems keeping up with Apple requires abandoning ToolBox and
THINK C (and their class library) and using MacApp, which appears to
be the new standard interface for Macintosh programming. Most
important, how difficult will it be to include support for 7.0
features using the various programmatic interfaces available (this is
mostly a discussion question)? While support for the 4 required Apple
Events is straightforward, support for Core Apple Events can require
extensive work in a procedural based program (ie, ToolBox
programming). Will MacApp provide reasonably transparent support for
these new features, so that existing classes can simply be plugged in
and be expected to gain most of the functionality of 7.0? In other
words, if I have a document class which supports the basic operations
on documents (undo, cut, copy, save, open, etc) will MacApp make
support for publish/subscribe and all the other goodies
straightforward?