Re: [MacPerl] Prototyping Mac GUIs in MacPerl

[Brian McNett <brianmc@telebyte.net>]

>Unknown.  But you might check the Apple site and see.  If not you might
>send a message to Apple asking about it.

Mark--

I'm having trouble following your responses.  Please QUOTE the pertinent 
parts of posts you're responding to, and follow up to person-to-person 
msgs with person-to-person msgs.

My problem with Macintosh Runtime for Java (that's MRJ, not "Mr. J" hence 
my confusion), is that the most current version (the one I need in order 
to have support for Sun's Java SDK), requires MacOS 8.1.  I freely admit 
to being SEVERAL versions behind, but will probably have a copy of 8.1 by 
Sept. (not nearly soon enough).  I can't even consider it (MRJ) until 
then.

To put this back on topic, the original intent of my post was to get a 
feel for what MacPerl programmers think concerning the utility of MacPerl 
for prototyping GUIs. The continuing discussion has given me much food 
for thought.   I think you've acheived that nicely.  In fact, I'm a bit 
overwhelmed by it all.

In context of the GUI work I'll soon be doing, the original progammer is 
sticking to his guns.  In order to hold onto this project long enough for 
us to hash out a public licensing agreement (he wants us to go open 
source, and I agree), I'm going to bow to his wishes.  This means I'm not 
be able to use MacPerl, except for my own purposes (which may yet be 
sufficient).  Doing all the final code in Java means I'm forced to learn 
YET ANOTHER programming language (and I've only JUST gotten MacPerl under 
my belt).

For the moment I'm going to be more deeply engrossed in DESIGNING the 
user interface than implementing it.  Finding an appropriate metaphor is 
the main challange.  We're automating a process which even today remains 
largely unautomated, something which is still done with pieces of paper 
and notepads.  I hope to be able to be more free with details at some 
later point.

There will, of course be an official announcement in all the appropriate 
places, when the sources becomes available, and everyone is welcome to 
pitch in and participate when the time comes.  Again, sorry I can't be 
more open at this point.


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