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- From: nagel@kithrup.Irvine.CA.US (Mark D. Nagel)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
- Subject: Re: Think Reference 2.0 Review
- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 93 14:05:44 PDT
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- In article <D2150096.o2q2ry@sproul.sproul.com> (comp.sys.mac.programmer), Sproul@sproul.sproul.com (Mark Sproul) writes:
- >
- > When it is fully installed it occupies 7.1 meg, it has
- > multiple database files and indexes. It containes VAST amounts of
- > data and insight including overview of many of the new things like
- > Sound manager and inter application communication. Well worth the
- > money and will be very valuable to all programmers. I have not tried
- > the new copy text features but they are documented. Another nice
- > feature is that all toolbox calls that may move memory are noted with
- > a memory chip symbol to help you remember when this may be a problem.
-
- I just installed this at work and it seems very useful. However,
- I hope there is a fixer-upper release soon, as I am concerned that
- the first few times I really tried to use it, I found spelling
- errors in symbolic constants. I can live with the occasional typo
- in descriptive text, but there should be absolutely no errors in the
- spelling of symbolic constants or function names. The example I came
- across was under Gestalt in the gestaltFindFolderAttr selector. Since
- this was the first real lookup I had done, I am forced to wonder how
- prevalent this problem is in the databases. All in all, though, a
- very useful product.
-
-
- Mark
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- Mark Nagel <nagel@mdn.uucp>
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- If at first you don't succeed, that's pretty much it.
- -- SDI Design Team
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