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- From: russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto)
- Subject: Re: Two more questions from a newbie
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.023358.14316@eng.umd.edu>
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 92 02:33:58 GMT
- Organization: Project GLUE, University of Maryland, College Park
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- In article <w=Z=wfB@engin.umich.edu> positron@engin.umich.edu (Jonathan Scott Haas) writes:
- >First, forgive me if this is a silly question, but what is MPW?
-
- Apples development environment.
-
- >What's it used for, and why would I want to use it? My school
- >has a site license for it, so I can get ahold of it... should I?
-
- If they have the languages/tools you want, and you have a lot of hard
- disk space and CPU to compile with. If you just want C and you
- already have THINK C, you don't need it. If you don't have a lot of
- hard disk space and a powerful CPU, you won't like it.
-
- >Secondly, I've been playing around with Think C, and one thing
- >I noticed is that several functions mentioned in Inside Mac seem
- >to have different names under Think C. I'd rather write code the
- >way Inside Mac says to, so I've created a file called thinkc.h
- >that currently contains:
- >
- > #define AppendResMenu AddResMenu
- > #define GetMenuHandle GetMHandle
- > #define GetMenuItemText GetItem
- >
- >...and so on. My question is: why? Why doesn't Think C use the
- >"standard" names for these functions?
-
- GetItem, GetMHandle, and AddResMenu ARE the standard names.
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