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From: drc@claris.com (Dennis Cohen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Prototyper
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Date: 22 Mar 89 15:15:59 GMT
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David is only partially correct in his complaints concerning Prototyper.  The
complaint is valid against version 1.0 of the product, but not 2.0 (the
currently shipping version).  The level of commentary is left to user
preference and the 2.0 release does not generate MF-incompatible code.  A
lot more capability is there than simply generating a resource file --
if that's all people wanted it for, they would be better off using ResEdit.
With Prototyper you can link menu items, buttons, and so forth to dialogs,
windows, and other objects and the code generated will reflect that.  In
short, you can generate the application shell for your program with Prototyper
and then implement whatever algorithms are necessary to do the grunt work
of your application.

Prototyper is a very useful program, but it is overkill as a resource editor.

Dennis Cohen
Claris Corp.
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Disclaimer:  Any opinions expressed above are _MINE_!