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From: lsr@apple.UUCP (Larry Rosenstein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: MPW and MultiFinder
Message-ID: <3344@apple.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 26-Aug-87 17:14:06 EDT
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Posted: Wed Aug 26 17:14:06 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 29-Aug-87 06:13:44 EDT
References: <1639@watcgl.waterloo.edu>
Reply-To: lsr@apple.UUCP (Larry Rosenstein)
Organization: Advanced Technology Group, Apple Computer
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In article <1639@watcgl.waterloo.edu> kdmoen@watcgl.UUCP (Doug Moen) writes:
>
>1) Will MPW (Macintosh Programmers Workshop) be compatible with MultiFinder?

MPW 2.0 is Multifinder aware; not only does it work with Multifinder, but it
takes vantage of the Multifinder environment.  

For example, if you are running Multifinder and launch an application from
MPW, the MPW shell does not run its normal suspend script.  It simply uses
sublaunching to have Multifinder run the application in a separate area of
memory (exactly as if you had launched the app from the Finder).  Since MPW
does not exit, there is no reason to save the state of variables, aliases,
etc. 

>2) Will the necessary calls to GetNextEvent (or whatever) be inserted
>   into the MPW C compiler so that it can run as a background task under
>   MultiFinder?

This was not done for MPW 2.0, so you can't run the compilers in the
background under Multifinder.  

-- 
Larry Rosenstein

Object Specialist
Apple Computer

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