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- From: ray@netcom.com (Ray Fischer)
- Subject: Re: TCL nightmare for C++ illiterate ex-windows programmer
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.010015.17871@netcom.com>
- Organization: Netcom. San Jose, California
- References: <93019.113451REE700A@MAINE.MAINE.EDU>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 01:00:15 GMT
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- REE700A@MAINE.MAINE.EDU writes ...
- > Well, I got Think C, read Macintosh Revealed series and finally bought
- >Mark & Cartwright's Programming Primer. Granted the real problem's here
- >are impatience and an information defecit, but I'm having serious problems
- >with the Think Class Library.
-
- Hmm. You too, eh? Useful, yes, but it rather reminds me of the
- original phone-book edition of Inside Mac. 26 chapters, each of which
- assumed you already knew the other 25. Except now it's 50-some
- classes.
-
- > I took "Starter.p" and added a class called "Flash", which is a floating
- >point representation of a rectangle. Included methods to get QD-compatible
- >rectangle coordinates. (Wonder of wonders... it worked!). But I COULD NOT
- >GET THE RECTANGLE TO DRAW!.
-
- I don't know the class library that well, but it probably calls the
- draw routine in response to an Update event (see Window manager
- chapter of Inside Mac). One way to generate same may be to call
- something like InvalRect().
-
- --
- Ray Fischer "Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth
- ray@netcom.com than lies." -- Friedrich Nietszsche
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