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From: viking@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu
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Subject: Re: Prototyper opinions?
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Date: 4 Feb 89 02:22:00 GMT
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>dave@emerald.PRC.Unisys.COM (David Lee Matuszek) writes:>
>|I am thinking about purchasing Prototyper, by SmetherBarnes.  Is this
>|any good?  Is there something better?
>
>Warning: as of the last time I looked, Prototyper did not handle the
>"newer" bits of the Macintosh user interface like popup menus, hier-
>archical menus, and tear-off menus.  Also, it only created Pascal code.
>Now you are using Pascal, so that's ok.

The new version 2.0 handles these constructs and will produce code for
both Pascal *and* C (LightSpeed and MPW).  I have heard nothing but
good reports from my developer friends, but I have no personal experience
with the product yet.  (I've just ordered a copy myself.)

Jon Backstrom
Computer Science Department
Indiana University