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Wrapping up the toolbox

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From: Leonard Hamey
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1988 21:07
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Well, I've made it through 1.5 volumes of Macintosh Revealed and I can't get
over the impression that using the toolbox is like playing with Lego (tm) ---
there are lots of bricks to be put together to build any one useful thing.
For example: to implement scrolling windows you have to load up and position
the scroll bars, fix 'em when the window zooms (I think), detect all the
events pertaining to the scroll bars and dispatch them, etc.

Now, while Macintosh Revealed contains an example program (in Pascal, yet ---
and I am a C hacker) such examples just provide a shell into which you pack
your own dispatch stuff. So... my question... has anyone written some
facilities to wrap up the toolbox into even higher-level interfaces? Like
automatically taking care of desk accessories, handling scrolled windows, etc?
It seems like a logical thing to do, so I figured before trying it I should
find out whether it already exists. Anyone got such a beast? In C even?

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Leonard Hamey			Computer Science Dept.
lgh@cs.cmu.edu			Carnegie Mellon University
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Leonard Hamey			Computer Science Dept.
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From: lgh@IUS2.CS.CMU.EDU (Leonard Hamey)
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Subject: Wrapping up the toolbox
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Date: 20 Jan 88 21:07:43 GMT
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Organization: Carnegie-Mellon University, CS/RI
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Keywords: Toolbax, C