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From: dlw@hpsmtc1.HP.COM (David Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: query about software development for Mac
Message-ID: <11540147@hpsmtc1.HP.COM>
Date: 14 Mar 88 17:02:49 GMT
References: <272@motbos.UUCP>
Organization: Hewlett Packard, Cupertino
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/ hpsmtc1:comp.sys.mac / smethers@psu-cs.UUCP (Paul Smethers) /  1:53 am  Mar 11, 1988 /
In article <272@motbos.UUCP> shino@motbos.UUCP (Rei Shinozuka MCD SE) writes:
>hi.  i've been developing UNIX software for a few years now and i thought
>i'd give the mac a try.  does anyone have any suggestions for a
>C compiler and development environment (possibly make utilities, emacs
>editor?)  i like unix, so that should give you an idea of what kind of
>software tools would be applicable for me.
>

>>One of the first problems you will run up against is that of designing
>>and coding your user-interface (and the generation of the resources for
>>it).  If you are planning to do a Macintosh program (not A/UX), then
>>Prototyper will allow you to draw your interface quickly, and it will
>>then generate the code and resources for you.
>>
>>Paul Smethers
>>SmethersBarnes
>>----------
Yes, but does Prototyper generate C code? The version I played with at 
ComputerWare seemed only to do every flavor of Pascal available, not C. THis
was version 1.0 I beleive is there a newer version that does C? If not there
should be! If you are planning to port your product to A/UX the other thing
you could do is come out with a product that does the same thing for X Windows
that sits on top of the X toolkit. There should be a HUGE market for that as
the current set of development tools in that area are primitive to say the 
least, if not non existant. In fact it would be nice to see THINK and you both
support X Windows under A/UX, if not under the Mac OS.

David Williams
Hewlett Packard - DCE/User Interface Project