Welcome to the Demo of AppMaker™ 1.5, Your Assistant Programmer
AppMaker is an application for generating the user interface, and the source code behind it, for a new or existing Macintosh application. AppMaker saves development time and cuts drudgery by letting you create menus, windows, dialogs, and alerts just by clicking and dragging to arrange what you want on the screen. With one command, AppMaker automatically generates the source code for the user interface you've designed, for selected modules, or for the entire application. You can choose either C or Pascal, for MPW or THINK language systems. In addition to traditional programming languages, AppMaker supports object-oriented programming using the THINK Class Library in either C or Pascal, as well as MacApp 2.0 using C++ or Pascal and MacApp 3.0 using C++.
This folder contains three files and one folder in addition to this Read Me First document: Demo AppMaker, Demo Stationery, DemoApp, and Demo Manual.
Demo AppMaker is a fully functioning version of AppMaker with the limitation that it can't open existing files, and the generated code can't be compiled or linked because the library routines that come with the full AppMaker application are not included.
Demo Stationery is a folder containing four AppMaker stationery files that correspond to the four programming language categories that AppMaker supports. Demo AppMaker should be kept in the same folder as the Demo Stationery folder.
DemoApp is a sample AppMaker file that shows many of the user interface elements you can create and arrange in AppMaker. It was created in just a few minutes of pointing and clicking. AppMaker then generated complete, ready-to-run source code that was compiled and linked with AppMaker library routines to produce DemoApp. By exploring DemoApp, you'll see hierarchical and pop-up menus, picture menus, tool palettes, scrollable lists, custom controls, such as picture buttons and sliders, and many more of the user interface elements you can create in AppMaker quickly and intuitively without any programming. The programmer has only to program the functions behind the user interface, not the menus, scroll bars, buttons, and other visible elements.
Demo Manual is extracted from the AppMaker documentation. It contains a Quick Tour of AppMaker with step-by-step instructions for creating DemoApp. Demo Manual is an Image file in Glue format, which you can read using the Viewer application from Solutions Inc., which is available on many on-line services.
To run Demo AppMaker, you need a Macintosh Plus or later computer with an 800K disk drive and System 6.0 or later.
All of these demo files can be copied and used by you or others to evaluate the AppMaker application.
For more information about AppMaker, contact Bowers Development Corp. at the address listed below. AppMaker's suggested retail price is $299; it comes with a 60-day money-back guarantee and free technical support. To compile and link AppMaker-generated source code, you must also have an MPW or THINK language system and enough memory and disk space to meet the requirements of the language system.
