Path: utzoo!dciem!nrcaer!sce!scs!phil
From: phil@scs.Carleton.CA (Phil Trubey)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.smalltalk
Subject: Re: Digitalk Smalltalk/V for Mac
Message-ID: <415@scs.Carleton.CA>
Date: 2 Feb 89 22:21:49 GMT
Article-I.D.: scs.415
References: <89@<PETE> <67500006@uicbert.eecs.uic.edu>
Reply-To: phil@scs.UUCP (Phil Trubey)
Organization: Computer Science, Carleton University, Canada
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In article <67500006@uicbert.eecs.uic.edu> wilson@uicbert.eecs.uic.edu writes:
>   Digitalk claims that Smalltalk/V Mac will run Smalltalk/V programs
>developed on their PC (AT, etc.) version.  I don't know about the accuracy
>or precision of this claim.  (How are the differences in window systems
>handled?  Is MS Windows similar enough to the Mac interface that this
>works?  How weird does the output look when you switch platforms?  How
>well have they hidden the differences?)

The claim is quite accurate.  Because the interfaces to the system classes
didn't change much, a V program should filein and run on V/Mac with
no mods.  A few things get faked for you - like pop up menus get converted
to pull down menubar menus (with menu titles like 'menu1') allowing you
to add in the missing info to make it look more like a mac application.
Your application's windows will automatically get mac scrollbars instead of
the PC's 2nd button drag.

By the way, V on the PC does *not* use MS Windows.

Phil Trubey