As far as NTK itself is concerned, there's very little to choose between the
Mac and PC versions. The only significant difference I've found is that you
can't use resources on the PC, so that, for example, if you use graphics
your images have to be in individual bitmap files. This is not an issue
unless you have projects with a lot of graphics. If you want to convert
projects between platforms you can go from Mac => PC but not the other way
(I think because of the resource issue).
There are one or two known bugs in the PC version: the screen resolution on
the PC has to be set to 16 bit for the screen shot utility to work, and the
PC to newton connection doesn't always work first time (it stays up OK once
it's established). Not serious.
So use whichever platform you're more comfortable with, or whichever you
think you'll be using in two years time... NTK is free, so try both!
-----Original Message-----
From: jceaser [mailto:jceaser@mac.com]
Sent: 07 August 2000 04:37
To: newtontalk@planetnewton.com
Subject: Re: NTLK Newbie programmer questions
use the mac.
on 08/06/2000 10:23 PM, Keith Isley at newt@crosspaths.net wrote:
> Help!
> I'm dipping my toes into Newton programming (with very little background)
> and I have a couple of questions. Could one of you more experienced
> programmers help me?
>
> 1) I have both a Mac and a Windows machine available to run Newton
Toolkit.
> Is one version better/more advanced than the other? Which is the better
> platform for basic Newt development?
>
> 2) I'm reading about NewtApp in the programmer's guide, but I don't
> understand how to access it. Some of the protos they're talking about
don't
> seem to be available in the Windows version of NTK (v1.6.3) - or else I
> don't know where to look, which is quite possible.
>
> Any helpful hints?
>
> Keith Isley
> isley@crosspaths.net
>
>
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