jas@cadre.dsl.PITTSBURGH.EDU (Jeffrey A. Sullivan) (05/01/88)
Has anyone had any experience with Programmer's Extender or MacExpress or any of these COMMERCIAL generic application/apptools kinds of products? I am assuming that they are like enhanced versions of transskel with more functionality and the like. I enjoy transskel/edit/display/blob, but there are things i'd like to do that they can't and which bomb when I work on them. For me, getting the programs done is more important than really understanding the innards of the Mac II. Oh, by the way, are they both Mac II compatible? -- .......................................................................... Jeffrey Sullivan | University of Pittsburgh jas@cadre.dsl.pittsburgh.edu | Intelligent Systems Studies Program jasper@PittVMS.BITNET, jasst3@cisunx.UUCP | Graduate Student
beloin@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Ron Beloin) (05/05/88)
In article <1146@cadre.dsl.PITTSBURGH.EDU> jas@cadre.dsl.PITTSBURGH.EDU (Jeffrey A. Sullivan) writes: >Has anyone had any experience with Programmer's Extender or MacExpress or >any of these COMMERCIAL generic application/apptools kinds of products? I I purchased programmer's extender (Invention Software), both volumes I and II, to help me develope a relatively simple application. After spending several frustrating days tracting down bugs in Invention Software's code, I decided that I would have been better off without it. There were several bugs, some of which would not allow procedures to work at all, others would cause data loss to the user of your program. One by one I abandoned their code and wrote my own procedures. (In that sense, it's a good learning environment!) They don't give you all of the sources, so I wa lucky that the bugs didn't show up in compiled code (although they may yet). Now my app is about 5% Invention's code, and if I ever do a major rewrite, I will purge all of it out. >Jeffrey Sullivan | University of Pittsburgh >jas@cadre.dsl.pittsburgh.edu | Intelligent Systems Studies Program >jasper@PittVMS.BITNET, jasst3@cisunx.UUCP | Graduate Student Ron Beloin, Ecosystems Research Center, Corson Hall, Cornell, Ithaca,NY 14853 >> opinions << BITNET:BELOIN@CRNLTHRY; INTERNET:beloin@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu >> are mine << UUCP:{cmcl2,shasta,uw-beaver,rochester}!cornell!tcgould!beloin