[comp.sys.apple] NDA's & tools

wombat@claris.com (Scott Lindsey) (09/16/89)

Dave Lyons was talking about NDA's and how messy it is for them to use tools
which their host application may or may not have started up.  Is the Control
Panel to be taken as an example NDA?  It would appear that it starts up the
List Manager (if isn't started up already when the CtlPanel is opened) and
shuts it down, not when the window is deactivated or closed, but when the
NDA gets its shutdown call.

I was wondering about it because I'm starting to work on an NDA that uses the
List Manager.

Well, it's a DA for now.  Any news on when CDev specifications will be
published?


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dlyons@Apple.COM (David Lyons) (09/22/89)

In article <WOMBAT.89Sep15235849@claris.com> wombat@claris.com (Scott Lindsey) writes:
>Dave Lyons was talking about NDA's and how messy it is for them to use tools
>which their host application may or may not have started up.  Is the Control
>Panel to be taken as an example NDA?  It would appear that it starts up the
>List Manager (if isn't started up already when the CtlPanel is opened) and
>shuts it down, not when the window is deactivated or closed, but when the
>NDA gets its shutdown call.

That doesn't sound like particularly polite behavior for an NDA--if that's
what it's doing, your own NDAs still need to be as polite as they can.

>[...] Any news on when CDev specifications will be published?

They're in this month's batch of File Type Notes (file type $C7), which
developers should have any day.  It's already available on the FTP site
(the path is ~ftp/pub/dts/aii/ftn/ftn.c7.xxxx).

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