MacZoop 2.0 represents one of the most straightforward and most rewarding ways to program the Macintosh. With very little effort, you can be right up to speed developing your next great Mac application, without all that tedious mucking about worrying about the event loop and all the standard toolbox code to open windows, etc.
MacZoop is aimed squarely at beginners to C++ programming, or newcomers to the Mac platform, and is ideal for small to medium-sized projects. It is supplied as full open source code, so all programmers should find something useful in it.
Users of MacZoop 1.x will find themselves right at home in MacZoop 2.0, but with hundreds of improvements and an even simpler architecture. MacZoop 2.0 also represents the first time a MacZoop release was developed with a significantly different approach along "open source" lines, with staged alpha and beta versions being peer reviewed, and an extended final candidate phase too. The benefit is that this is the most bug-free MacZoop ever released to date, and is utterly rock solid.
If you obtained the MacZoop 2.0 SDK from a CD-ROM, cover disk, etc, you may like to know that there is a MacZoop website that is frequently updated with all of the latest versions of the code, extra classes, and links to MacZoop-friendly sites. The URL is:
MacZoop requires a compiler to make use of it, and Metrowerks CodeWarrior Professional is recommended. However, other development environments such as MPW or Symantec can be used, though this may require some adjustment to the source code.
MacZoop can be compiled with any version of CodeWarrior right back to DR5 or so.
