carlile@trwrb.UUCP (01/16/87)
(Is there a line eater?)
Has anyone had any experience in porting applications written in C on the IBM
PC to the Macintosh? I'm not even talking about using any Macish thing here,
just porting something which runs on the PC and having it run, no matter how
ugly and PC like, on the Mac? How big a problem is it?
A related, but completely different question, really for Larry Rosenstein. Is
it possible to include C code in a MacApp design? I want to do this if the
first question is possible, since the user interface is a lot simpler from
MacApp.
Thanks
Don Carlile
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my employer's.lsr@apple.UUCP (Larry Rosenstein) (01/19/87)
In article <1528@trwrb.UUCP> carlile@trwrb.UUCP (Donald E. Carlile) writes: > >A related, but completely different question, really for Larry Rosenstein. Is >it possible to include C code in a MacApp design? I want to do this if the >first question is possible, since the user interface is a lot simpler from >MacApp. > MPW supports writing programs in a mixture of Pascal, Assembler, & C, so the same it true of MacApp. The only requirement of MacApp is that you write the basic user interface part of your program in Object Pascal (or Assembler if you prefer). Internally, you are not required to use object-oriented programming at all so you can use standard Pascal or C. If you were going to port a program from the IBM PC, it should be easy to keep the internals of the program unchanged, and use MacApp to construct the standard Macintosh user interface. -- Larry Rosenstein Object Specialist Apple Computer AppleLink: Rosenstein1 UUCP: {sun, voder, nsc, mtxinu, dual}!apple!lsr CSNET: lsr@Apple.CSNET