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From: sbb@esquire.UUCP (Stephen B. Baumgarten)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Wrapping up the toolbox
Keywords: Toolbax, C
Message-ID: <300@esquire.UUCP>
Date: 21 Jan 88 16:16:23 GMT
References: <687@PT.CS.CMU.EDU>
Reply-To: sbb@esquire.UUCP (Stephen B. Baumgarten)
Organization: DP&W, New York, NY
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In article <687@PT.CS.CMU.EDU> lgh@IUS2.CS.CMU.EDU (Leonard Hamey) writes:
>Now, while Macintosh Revealed contains an example program (in Pascal, yet ---
>and I am a C hacker) such examples just provide a shell into which you pack
>your own dispatch stuff. So... my question... has anyone written some
>facilities to wrap up the toolbox into even higher-level interfaces? Like
>automatically taking care of desk accessories, handling scrolled windows, etc?
>It seems like a logical thing to do, so I figured before trying it I should
>find out whether it already exists. Anyone got such a beast? In C even?

Sounds like you want either TransSkel (for C or Pascal), or -- if you want
to go whole hog -- MacApp, which does lovely object-oriented things to boot.
For MacApp, you need MPW, MPW Pascal and $$$.  For TransSkel you need access
to any major bulletin board, where you'll probably find it in the programmers'
SIG.

MacApp, of course, is far more sophisticated and powerful.  I've done a little
with TransSkel, and you can definitely have DAs, scrolling text, dialog boxes,
etc. up and running with very little coding on your part.  I've never used
MacApp, but it does *at least* as much for you.

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