[comp.sys.mac.wanted] Wanted: Good Example C Code of Window Programming

rfink@eng.umd.edu (Russell A. Fink) (10/04/90)

Sorry if this is in the wrong group, and sorry that this didn't get
sent in the previous post (I can't cancel it either).

I am looking for a source of any simple C program that makes use of the
function and procedure calls to manipulate the Mac window interface.
I am trying to create an application (stand-alone) from MPW 3.1, and
I have the Mac bible (written in Pascal) vols 1,2,3 which seems to be
void of clear, useable examples.

I am trying to make a simple database program, which is already coded and
working in standard C, to run under the Mac windows environment by adding the
needed window manipulation procedures to it (to make it look nice).

Thanks in advance for any sources, emailings, or FTP's (PREFERRED so as to
not hog up net time or my mailbox) you may have.



Thanks,

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aslakson@cs.umn.edu (Brian Aslakson) (10/05/90)

rfink@eng.umd.edu (Russell A. Fink) writes:
>I am looking for a source of any simple C program that makes use of the
PING!
Light bulb goes off.
I *don't* program, but John Norstad does and makes (most of) the source
for Disinfectant available via anonymous ftp at fine sites all over the
net.  acns.nwu.edu rascal.ics.utexas.edu sumex-aim.stanford.edu.

Enjoy.


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pepke@gw.scri.fsu.edu (Eric Pepke) (10/05/90)

If you want a somewhat painless way of getting into programming the 
Macintosh, you might check out the TransSkel application skeleton by Paul 
DuBois.  It is available via anonymous FTP from sumex-aim.stanford.edu, 
among other places.  It is written for THINK C, which was once called 
Lightspeed C, but you might be able to get it to work under MPW C as well. 
I haven't tried it.

I should point out the standard warning: it takes a hell of a lot more than
tacking windows and menus onto a text-based program to make it into a
friendly Macintosh program.

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