Re: Mac vs. XView

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From: Nelson Claytor
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 1991 20:19

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In article <BARNETT.91Jan31134827@grymoire.crd.ge.com> 
barnett@grymoire.crd.ge.com (Bruce Barnett) writes:
> Well, I can try. Take an XView panel, with text and a scrollbar. (I'll
> simplify it somewhat.)

[stuff about simplicity of XView window creation deleted]

[more stuff about complications of THINK C deleted]

OK, now let's try it with MacApp. What routines do you have to know? 
Essentially none, if you want the "working application that does nothing" 
described. Use the 1 1/2 pages example program that initializes the MacApp 
routines and the toolbox. Now use the application called ViewEdit that is 
included with MacApp, and *draw* your window's interface. Then you have a 
working program that does nothing.

My observation on the subject would be that I have yet to see an X program 
with an interface anywhere near as nice as the typical Mac application's, 
so how easy could it be? (Word is specifically excluded here >:-))
The object oriented approach described in the original message has been
implemented in the forms of both MacApp and the THINK class library. No
one *has to* know every last toolbox detail any more, or even how to do
scrolling.

Nelson

Nelson Claytor
claytor@tandem.physics.upenn.edu

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Subject: Re: Mac vs. XView
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Date: 31 Jan 91 20:19:14 GMT
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