Welcome to the Demo of AppMaker™, 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 Metrowerks, Symantec, or MPW language systems. In addition to traditional programming languages, AppMaker supports object-oriented programming using the PowerPlant Class Library, the THINK Class Library in either C or Pascal, as well as MacApp 2.0 using C++ or Pascal and MacApp 3.0 or 3.1 using C++.
This folder contains several files and folders in addition to this Read Me First document: Demo AppMaker, AppMaker Prefs, AppMaker Interface, Stationery, Languages, and Examples. These files are stored in two self-extracting archives. Just run each archive to extract the files and folders.
Demo AppMaker is a fully functioning version of AppMaker with the limitation that it can't save 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. The AppMaker Prefs and AppMaker Interface files are files needed to run Demo AppMaker.
The Stationery file lets you easily create a new AppMaker document with standard contents including Apple, File, and Edit menus, a Main Window, etc.
The Languages folder contains two of the many languages that AppMaker supports. When you Generate code you choose a language from this folder.
The Examples folder contains two example AppMaker documents, AMReminder and Big Test. It also contains a folder of generated code for AMReminder and pre-built applications for AMReminder using PowerPlant and Procedural C.
AMReminder is a sample application 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 AMReminder. By exploring AMReminder, you'll see many 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.
All of these demo files can be copied and used by you or others to evaluate the AppMaker application.
Please note that this is a demo version of a Beta version of AppMaker. It is not a complete and polished version but it is usable in its current form. Newer versions of AppMaker will be released on CD approximately every four months.
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 a Metrowerks, Symantec, or MPW language system and enough memory and disk space to meet the requirements of the language system.
