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From: mp1u+@andrew.cmu.edu (Michael Portuesi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: The Resource Problem
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Date: 3 Apr 88 05:12:23 GMT
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Excerpts from: 22-Mar-88 Re: The Resource Problem Michael J. Lawley@munnar
(2135)

> Actually, I've already written all the routines for just such a system.
[...]
> It is in fact more sophisticated than what you describe as it keeps track of
> everything you have opened (windows, screens, menus etc) and closes them,
> deallocates the memory used for temp storage etc when the program exits.
[...]
> Eventually, I hope to get an editor written along the lines of PowerWindows
> or ResEdit (for the Mac), but until then the converter will have to do.
> (Maybe someone else would like to write the editor)

Not to belittle anyone's efforts, but I think resources are yet one more area
where developers are going to have to establish a standard (along with window
iconification and IPC) before everyone produces "their way of doing it" and
leaves application development in utter chaos from the result.

                        --M

Michael Portuesi / Carnegie Mellon University
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