Re: PowerPlant Discontinued

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From: MW Ron
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 19:43

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In article <1114487184.984831.242500@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>,
 "jonhoyle@mac.com" <jonhoyle@mac.com> wrote:

>Mac2Win was certainly used by Metrowerks at least as far as CodeWarrior
>6 (a PowerPlant application), and that fact can be demonstrated by
>bringing up the Mac2Win Secret About Box

Correct various components were not converted until they were 
re-written. 

>  Furthermore, Greg Dow made
>the following statement in the aforementioned article:

If I remember correctly (and I'm pretty confident I do) Greg Dow did not 
work on PowerPlant for Windows.  

>Unless of course Metrowerks had some independent and totally
>coincidental reasons for duplicating Altura's Secret About Box.

You are still looking at a Metrowerks application and not PowerPlantXP 
which is a porting library.   Those that are into these things could 
tell which components were converted using Altura and PowerPlant by how 
the bitmaps looked differently on Windows.

Ron

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From: MW Ron <mwron@metrowerks.com>
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