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From: jellinghaus-robert@CS.YALE.EDU (Rob Jellinghaus)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: A call for sources
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Date: 25 Feb 88 00:37:18 GMT
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Summary: Oh, yes!  Please!

In article <7136@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> elcond@garnet.berkeley.edu.UUCP (Gregory Dow) writes:
>The recent posting by Emphraim Vishniac regarding a custom WDEF whose
>source code he is sending to info-mac indicates that there are many
>(well, at least a few) people who want source code examples.  However,
>the volume on comp.sources.mac is almost nil.
...
>I think that regular postings of sample code and subsequent discussion of
>the techniques used would be very helpful.  Does anyone else feel this way?

I very strongly agree.  I have Chernicoff, TransSkel, and "Programming the
Macintosh in C" (or whichever book it is that has the complete Mandelbrot
set generator source in it), but I am always looking for more examples.

I especially wonder when a new version of TransSkel will be coming out
(RSN?).  The current version is OK for doing very basic things, but it
would be REALLY REALLY NICE if the author included a set or two of "handlers"
that go on top of TransSkel to make it do different things.  (For example,
has anyone used TransSkel to write a basic TextEdit kind of application?
If you have, could you post the sources?)  The "handler" concept is not
well documented in the source, and while I can get the general drift, it
would be VERY nice to see exactly how handlers are used in real programs.

>I'd by happy to coordinate this activity (and post a lot of my own source
>code) if there's enough interest.

I'm interested!  Post away!  (Who the %$@& moderates comp.sources.mac,
anyway?!)

>                                       -- Greg
>
>
>  Gregory Dow                  ARPA:   elcond@garnet.berkeley.edu
>  Chemical Engineering Dept.   UUCP:   {uwvax, decvax, ihnp4, ...}!ucbvax
>  University of California               !elcond%garnet.berkeley.edu
>  Berkeley, CA  94720          BITNET: POLYDOW@UCBCMSA

For those who care, I plan (when I next get a vacation) to write a
super-duper Life program, using linked lists to store the board (see
rec.games.programmer for a discussion of useful algorithms), and with an
option to have multi-colored cells.  I have heard that with 4 cell colors
you can create gliders that have, and keep, all 4 colors as they move...
This should be one HELL of a learning experience.  My main problem is
going to be creating some kind of cut-and-paste functionality for the
program, when the underlying data structure of the board is so incredibly
complex.  Anyone interested in giving me some pointers?  (Pun not
intended...)

Rob Jellinghaus                | "They're cute, they're quick, and
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