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From: pscott@spam.ua.oz (Paul Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: ThinkPascal
Keywords: Pascal graphics
Date: 15 Apr 92 07:32:22 GMT
Organization: Stats Pure & Applied Maths, Uni of Adelaide, Australia

I am using ThinkPascal 4.0 with System 6.0.5.  I have three problems associated
with graphics programs.

(1) When using the Text Window, sometimes the text does not appear.  This
appears to be an intermittent fault.  Is there a solution?

(2) When working with cartesian axes, is there any easy way of reversing the
y-axis and corresponding coordinates, so that coordinates on the screen
correspond to 'real life'?! - ie y-axis up instead of down?

(3) I understand there may be a way of rotating 'pictures', although I can find
no mention of this in the manuals.  Can anybody please help?

Paul Scott, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Adelaide, Australia
pscott@spam.ua.oz.au
From: sasdtm@stthomas.unx.sas.com (Donald T. Major)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Think Class Library discussion list
Date: 8 Apr 92 22:10:59 GMT
Organization: SAS Institute Inc.
Originator: sasdtm@stthomas.unx.sas.com
X-Bytes: 232

I also would be interested in such a group.

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From: eer@sal.wisc.edu (Evan Richards)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer,comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: PSI Faxmodems/Comstation
Date: 10 Apr 92 22:47:26 GMT
Organization: Space Astronomy Lab, Madison WI


We purchased a Comstation One from PSI Integration in December for use
with a Quadra 700.  Unfortunately, the faxmodem software is not quadra
(68040) compatible.  We have had numerous conversations with PSI, numerous
promises, but so far have no fax software that works and no workarounds.
They sound cooperative but they apparently have not been able to get 
delivery on useable faxmodem software from their vendor.  

Their literature does not make clear the comstation series of faxmodems
do not work with the Quadras.  They don't.

The latest promise was for beta software that was in-house last week.
I asked to be called if it could not be delivered this week as promised.
No software, no call.

I'll keep you posted.

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From: russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto)
Subject: Re: Quickdraw to ASCII printer
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 92 20:12:35 GMT
Organization: College of Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park

In article <1992Apr15.182243.18009@news.cs.indiana.edu> chaynes@cs.indiana.edu writes:
>I need to send ASCII characters straight out the printer port of a Classic
>(from a MacScheme program, but that shouldn't matter). I'm told the best
>way to do this is via Quickdraw calls using an appropriate driver (that
>does *not* do bit map conversion).  Does anyone know how I can get such a
>driver?

Whoever told you this was wrong.  The best way to do what you describe
is to use the serial driver (which does exactly as you ask).  I don't
know how to access that from MacScheme, though.



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From: piovanel@ghost.dsi.unimi.it (marco piovanelli)
Subject: Notification color icons
Organization: Computer Science Dep. - Milan University
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 11:48:27 GMT
Summary: How to use color icons in notification requests?

I have a small application that can work in background to process
apple events, and sometimes needs to interact with the user.
If it's in the bg, it posts a polite notification request by calling
AEInteractWithUser with a NIL parameter.  IM 6 says this will default
to a standard behavior.  Yet, what I get is a flashing SICN in the
menubar (the SICN resource has the same ID as the ID of the application's
icon family).  I would like to get a color icon (i.e. ics8 or ics4) used
instead, at least on a color screen.
  Now: IM 6 says I should put in the nmIcon field of a NM request record
  a *HANDLE TO AN ICON FAMILY*.  What does this mean exactly?
  Should I pass a handle to an ics8 resource, for example?
  How could the Notification Manager tell a handle to a SICN from a
  handle to a resource of a different kind?

  Thanx in advance for any hints on this issue.
From: danny@utkux1.utk.edu (Danny McCampbell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: (Q): Does anyone know about 'ictb' rsrcs?
Date: 15 Apr 92 12:21:24 GMT
Organization: University of Tennessee

Hi all.

I am adding color to the buttons in my dialogs and I have just encountered
the 'ictb' resource.  The only editor for it is the hex editor.  Does
anyone know of another editor that can be used?  I cannot really understand
where what goes where.

Also, is there a list of the hex codes for all colors that will tell me
what hex numbers I need to put together to yield certain colors?

Some info would really be appreciated.  Thanks in advance.

Danny
From: stevec@Apple.COM (Steve Christensen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Error on High Density Floppies
Date: 16 Apr 92 02:03:27 GMT
Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, CA

pmcilroy@srd.bt.co.uk (Paul McIlroy) writes:

>We have a number of high density floppy disks (MFM format) which were 
>written over a year ago using a MacIIci.  They were kept in a drawer 
>sharing a box with some 800k floppies.  The 800k floppies are still 
>fine, but the high density disks are now all unreadable.  Attempts to 
>mount them returns ERROR -400 gcrOnMFMErr (gcr format on high density 
>media error).  I do not believe that there is a hardware error on the 
>IIci, since newly formatted MFM disks which it writes can be read by 
>other Macs without problem.  We have been unable to fix these disks 
>with either MacTools Rescue (version 1.1) or Norton Utilities.  Has 
>anybody else had similar problems with high density floppies ? And 
>does anybody know of any way to rescue disks from gcrOnMFMErr ?

gcrOnMFMErr means that the high density disk _looks_ like it was initialized
using one of the 800K disk drives (i.e., pre-Mac IIx).  An easy way to see
if this is really the case is to put some tape over the extra hole in the
disk shell, stick it into the drive and see if it shows up on the desktop.
If it does, perhaps someone has been playing around with the disks in your
drawers...

If this is indeed what happened, you may find you need a bulk eraser (or a
strong magnet) to properly erase the HD disks before you use them again.
The old 800K drives generate a stronger field on the read/write head, so the
data is imbedded deeper in the media than on the SuperDrives.  Your luck may
vary on this.

If the disk doesn't show up on the desktop and Norton can't deal with it,
then I'm not sure what the problem might be.

steve

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From: chrille@zelator.in-berlin.de (Christian Kuss)
Subject: What' DSKP/DPVW
Organization: Puplic-Access-Xenix-System
Date: Tue, 07 Apr 92 08:36:23 GMT

Hello...
in the folder with Ballonwriter, I found three files with an unknown filetype.
The type is DSKP and the creater is DPVW. It must be a wordprocessor, but none
of my programs will open these files. I don't own MPW, may these are MPW
files??

Chrille

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From: louis@asterix.drev.dnd.ca (Louis Demers)
Subject: Cdent, where do I find it ?
Organization: Defence Research Establishment Valcartier
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1992 13:58:14 GMT

Hi,

	In the documentation of MPW, there a references to a shell variable
that contains the options for a C++ beautifier.  How can I get this
beautifier ?

		Louis
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From: schalk@symcom.math.uiuc.edu (Ken Schalk)
Subject: LDEF source code wanted
Summary: blah blah blah
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1992 04:40:23 GMT
Keywords: Send your LDEF code to me!

    Aproximately 2 years ago, I took the time to puzzle out how to
write a working LDEF with MPW in Pascal.  Unfortunately, in the
interim, I seem to have lost all copies and backups of my code.
Needless to say, I am a bit ired at myself, but life goes on.

    If anyone out there has a copy of a working LDEF written in some
sort of C or Pascal, *please*, send me a copy.  I'd really rather not
have to try and figure it out from scratch again, and I'd rather avoid
the distasteful process of figuring it out from the assembly source
for the standard one.  I'd be more than willing to return in kind with
the LDEF I plan to develop, when I do.  (It'll probably be a while,
though.)

    Many thanx in advance.

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From: sasdtm@stthomas.unx.sas.com (Donald T. Major)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Large pointer blocks
Date: 8 Apr 92 22:09:29 GMT
Article-I.D.: unx.1992Apr8.220929.7119
Organization: SAS Institute Inc.
Originator: sasdtm@stthomas.unx.sas.com
X-Bytes: 512

How are you allocating the memory?  NewPtr has no such limitation,
unless your heap is incredibly fragmented and uncompactible (for the
amount of RAM you had in your application :-)).  This seems unlikely,
so perhaps you're using malloc() or calloc() (or whichever such
functions are available in the THINK C ANSI library)?

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
From: kent@sparky.imd.sterling.com (Kent Landfield)
Subject: Re: How about C.S.M.P on CD-ROM?
Keywords: CD-ROM C.S.M.P. Digest
Organization: Sterling Software
Distribution: na
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 21:53:19 GMT
X-Md4-Signature: 15c3c5933e2f3dba21d8a3552f9d7ad4

In article <1417@npdiss1.StPaul.NCR.COM> pasek@ncrons.StPaul.NCR.COM (Mike Pasek) writes:
>In article <92096.232952CHARLESW@QUCDN.QueensU.CA> CHARLESW@QUCDN.QueensU.CA writes:
>>[some stuff deleted]
>>  Has anyone proposed making CSMP available periodically on CD-ROM, say with
>>On Location index files?  [more stuff deleted]
>>  What do people think?  Would a semi-annual CD-ROM be worth ten or fifteen
>>bucks or would it already be too stale?

If you think that you can pay for all your production costs selling a CD-ROM
for ten or fifteen bucks, I will be in line to buy one... :-) 

>On the other hand, there is already a company that is planning to issue CD-ROMs
>containing _all_ USENET news.  It's called NetNews/CD, and they are supposed
>to start shipping CD-ROMs in ISO9660 format (with a Mac reader) sometime this
>month.

Sterling Software has been shipping USENET News on CD-ROM since the first of 
the year in Sun UFS format.  We are in the final stages of preparation for 
producing an ISO 9660 format version.  (News doesn't fit real well into the
ISO 9660 format...)  The Mac reader is a problem in that the only version with 
sources we have been able to aquire is NewsWatcher. It has limitations in
that it uses the list manager for displaying newsgroups. Newswatcher can't 
handle the 1800 to 2500 newsgroups which are on the CD-ROMs each issue... :-(
We are trying to work around it but it has not been as easy a process as it 
initially appeared.  (It never is...) Because of that we do not expect to be
shipping a Mac reader until May.  If someone has other Mac readers for which 
they can supply sources please contact me and maybe we can speed up the
availability of the Mac readers.

>Personally, I'd probably prefer one that had _only_ C.S.M.P., with probably
>some of the other Mac-specific newsgroups (e.g., c.s.m.system, c.s.m.hardware,
>comp.protocols.appletalk, etc.).

We are planning on producing specialized yearly series CD-ROMs.  The Mac 
groups were one we had considered.  If you are interested in seeing us do 
that please send email to cdnews@sterling.com and let us know.

More information on the service and its directions can be found by sending
email to cdnews@sterling.com or via anonymous ftp from ftp.uu.net in the 
directory ~/vendors/sterling.

			-Kent+
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From: Ray.Arachelian@f204.n2603.z1.ieee.org (Ray Arachelian)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Basic On The Mac
Date: 9 Apr 92 21:59:00 GMT
Organization: FidoNet node 1:2603/204 - Not Even Odd, Forest Hills NY

On 04-01-92, MIYAZAKI@PHOENIX.PRINCETO wrote to ALL:

 M>  Are they System 7 compatible? 

ZBasic isn't System 7 savvy, but it sure as hell is system 7 compatible.

 * Freddie 1.2b7 * You have been found guilty of commerce with the devil.

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From: ksand@apple.com (Kent Sandvik)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: developing for mac ?
Date: 8 Apr 92 23:19:17 GMT
Organization: MacDTS Mongols

In article <1992Mar31.212237.1@cc.helsinki.fi>, mlindholm@cc.helsinki.fi writes:
> 
> 
>     I'd like to get information of development
>     environments which produce code both for 
>     Macintosh and DOS or Windows.  So I have to 
>     write the code only once.
> 
>     Thanks in advance.
> 
>     					mlindholm@cc.helsinki.fi

SmallTalk/V, xvt, Universal Component system, a lot of other
rumored frameworks here real soon now.

Cheers,
Kent

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
From: leonardr@ccs.itd.umich.edu
Subject: Re: Notification color icons
Originator: leonardr@diddley.ccs.itd.umich.edu
Organization: Campus Computing Sites, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 92 17:29:09 GMT

In article <1992Apr8.114827.1815@ghost.dsi.unimi.it> piovanel@ghost.dsi.unimi.it (marco piovanelli) writes:
>I have a small application that can work in background to process
>apple events, and sometimes needs to interact with the user.
>If it's in the bg, it posts a polite notification request by calling
>AEInteractWithUser with a NIL parameter.  IM 6 says this will default
>to a standard behavior.  Yet, what I get is a flashing SICN in the
>menubar (the SICN resource has the same ID as the ID of the application's
>icon family).  I would like to get a color icon (i.e. ics8 or ics4) used
>instead, at least on a color screen.
>  Now: IM 6 says I should put in the nmIcon field of a NM request record
>  a *HANDLE TO AN ICON FAMILY*.  What does this mean exactly?
>  Should I pass a handle to an ics8 resource, for example?
>  How could the Notification Manager tell a handle to a SICN from a
>  handle to a resource of a different kind?
>
	An IconFamily, is an "as yet undocumented" data structure which is 
part of the also "as yet undocumented" Icon Manager, which is the part of 
System 7 that the Finder, Chooser, Notification Manager, etc. use to draw
the appropriate icons.

	MacDTS is preparing (has already released??) a Tech Note which
documents some of the parts of the Icon Manager, but I don't know if that
includes the info for creating & disposing IconFamilies.


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From: jbush@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (John E Bush)
Subject: Re: How do you get the top, left, width, and heighth  from a WIND
Keywords: windows, size
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 1992 04:20:44 GMT

This message is responded to as if you are using Think Pascal's library, but
there is probably something equivalent for other development environments:

There is a procedure in the CWindow class that returns a structure to you
called GetFrame(var theFrame:LongRect) which returns the size of the
window to you.
From: edw@caligula.cts.com (Ed Watkeys)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: discipline
Date: 10 Apr 92 18:55:09 GMT
Reply-To: edw@caligula.cts.com (Ed Watkeys)
Organization: Guerrilla Networking Project
X-Mailer: uAccess - Macintosh Release: 1.5v4


In article <22811@goofy.Apple.COM> (comp.sys.mac.programmer), ksand@apple.com (Kent Sandvik) writes:
> In article <5242@pdxgate.UUCP>, howard@rigel.cs.pdx.edu (howard l. berkey)
> writes:
>  
> > Hi!
> > 	What exactly does discipline do for macsbug and where can I get info
> > on it?
> 
> It's an Apple provided tool which checks parameters sent in and out from
> traps, kicking and screaming if they are the wrong ones. It's available
> on the ETO CDs and I think it's a product from APDA, but I'm not 100% sure.
> 
> Cheers,
> Kent Sandvik
> 

Or, you can get it by getting _MacsBug Reference and Debugging Guide_ -- you
can get the book with a floppy that includes MacsBug and Discipline.

Ed

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From: d88-jwa@byse.nada.kth.se (Jon W{tte)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Does anyone know about "Time-Saver Engines"?
Date: 10 Apr 92 16:16:04 GMT
Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
Originator: d88-jwa@byse.nada.kth.se

.cineca.it> pietro@deis35.cineca.it (Pietro Caselli) writes:

   I have found in an old copy of the Mac Development Tool & Languages
   Guidebook (Fall 1989) an advertisement page about some source code called
   "Time-Saver Engines", containing a full-featured WP, an object oriented draw
   editor and a finder-like interface, from a SW firm called "DataPak Software"

   Does anyone know whether this firm still exists and sells this software? If

Yes, it's called the word solutions engine these days, and has lots
of add-ons available.

   it does, what is their address, telephone, fax or E-mail? If it does not, do
   you know whether it is possible to directly contact the authors or have in

DataPak Software Inc
9317 NE Highway 99, Suite G
Vancouver, Washington
98665-8900
fax 206 573 9269
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From: scott@mcl.mcl.ucsb.edu (Scott Bronson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Network copy protection problems
Date: 12 Apr 92 22:20:23 GMT
Article-I.D.: mcl.scott.703117223

In <D2150035.0r9ddv@outpost.SF-Bay.org> peirce@outpost.SF-Bay.org (Michael Peirce) writes:


>>[On a crash, names aren't being unregistered]

>Patch the ExitToShell trap and do your unregistering there.

>Not only are you getting a duplicate name, but worse, NBP still thinks
>it owns the block of memory that contains the original name.  This
>chunk of memory could very well be part of another program's memory
>space now!

Yes, but this won't help you on a crash.  I don't know how comfortable
you might feel with patching _SysError...

You will probably want to periodically want to poll the names in use,
and simply ping each one to make sure they are still there.  If there
was a crash, you wouln't get a ping, and you might want to take some
action there.

If the user aborts (cmd-opt-esc), I don't know if _ExitToShell gets
called.  Can you rely on it always being called in the future?  Perhaps
a more future compatible way of doing this would be to make a small
stub application that simply launches the main application.  The small
one would accept ChildDied events, then know when to release the name.
(when its child died).  If you had the main app register the name and
the stub app remove it, I think you can be virtually guranteed future
compatibility.

	- Scott