oster@dewey.soe.berkeley.edu.UUCP (06/03/87)
My copy of Inside Macintosh Vol. 5 (APDA draft) arrived today. Most of it has to with color quickdraw which I can't use (I've got just a stock MacPlus) and some of it has to do with hierarchical menus which I won't use (I think they make most programs, and certainly my programs to hard for my users to figure out.) But: It finally documents the new super Text Edit Manager that is in the System 4.1 system software. I typed in LightSpeed C interfaces and I'm having a ball upgrading all my stuff to use it. (I love fonts and styles) If David Dunham, doesn't upgrade MiniWriter real soon I'll release my own text editor desk accessory that supports this stuff. (If I weren't philosphically opposed to 80k desk accessories I'd add it, and search and replace, to Calendar and release it as Calendar 2.0.) Thanks Apple for making my old machine better! I understand why the system file has gotten so big. Now, if you'll just not pull the rug out from under me when I use the script manager (Which was put in to support 16 bit characters for Kanji) to let me have pictures in the middle of my Text Edit text. I heard a rumor that there is going to be a .Notify device driver to give a uniform way for mail, fax, telegram, and reminder system to notify a busy user that something or someone wants to talk him. Is it in System 4.1, just not documented? (You need something like this so a reminder system like Smart Alarms or MIND won't collide with a mail system like In-Box or Net-Mail.) How about a text note documenting the enhanced text file format used by the Read Me stuff on the current system software release disks? (I assume it will be easy to figure out but you guys published a tech note about the trivial enhanced text file format that Edit uses.) --- David Phillip Oster -- "The goal of Computer Science is to Arpa: oster@dewey.soe.berkeley.edu -- build something that will last at Uucp: ucbvax!dewey.soe!oster -- least until we've finished building it."