Re: [MacPerl] Prototyping Mac GUIs in MacPerl

[Chris Nandor <pudge@pobox.com>]

At 11.00 -0400 1998.08.10, Jeff at MacTech wrote:
>>From what I've seen (and I haven't worked with them extensively), using
>the Toolbox modules results in code which is almost a line-by-line
>translation of what you would do in C. So, if the goal is to prototype
>(ie, write a quick version to experiment and then a final version in C),
>you might as well just write it in C--it won't take any more code, and
>when you are done prototyping, you are _done_--you don't have to translate
>back into C, and you won't have wasted time writing the C-to-Perl adaptor
>code. And if you write it in C++ using a framework, it will be even less
>work. This is just the impresssion that I get.

That is a very good and important point, however, consider that in some
ways you can test Perl code more easily than C code.  Make a change, hit
command-shift-R.

And there is room for people like you, me, Alan, etc. to write methods to
make access easier.  Right now it is kinda complicated, and that can
change.  AppleEvents are getting easier, I think (with
Mac::AppleEvents::Simple), and will likely get easier still.  Something
similar can be done with GUI calls.

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