Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!bbn!rochester!PT.CS.CMU.EDU!IUS2.CS.CMU.EDU!lgh From: lgh@IUS2.CS.CMU.EDU (Leonard Hamey) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Wrapping up the toolbox Message-ID: <687@PT.CS.CMU.EDU> Date: 20 Jan 88 21:07:43 GMT Sender: netnews@PT.CS.CMU.EDU Organization: Carnegie-Mellon University, CS/RI Lines: 25 Keywords: Toolbax, C Well, I've made it through 1.5 volumes of Macintosh Revealed and I can't get over the impression that using the toolbox is like playing with Lego (tm) --- there are lots of bricks to be put together to build any one useful thing. For example: to implement scrolling windows you have to load up and position the scroll bars, fix 'em when the window zooms (I think), detect all the events pertaining to the scroll bars and dispatch them, etc. 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? -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Leonard Hamey Computer Science Dept. lgh@cs.cmu.edu Carnegie Mellon University -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Leonard Hamey Computer Science Dept. lgh@cs.cmu.edu Carnegie Mellon University