Re: [NTLK] Newton.app

From: Laurent Daudelin (laurent_daudelin_at_fanniemae.com)
Date: Mon Mar 04 2002 - 17:51:34 EST

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On 04/03/02 17:29, "Sean Luke" <sean_at_cs.gmu.edu> wrote:

>
> Laurent wrote:
>
>> "W. Kennedy" wrote:
>>>
>>> I found Newton.app for NeXT.
>>>
>>> Maybe, with a little grit and elbow grease, a port to OS X can be done.
>>
>> I'll have a look at it.
>
> Beat you to it. Here's the deal: Newton.app looks like it'll be a
> fairly trivially ported app to Cocoa (it's in Openstep-style
> Retain/Release/Autorelease, rather than old NeXTSTEP-style alloc/free).
> The old PB.project file imported fine into ProjectBuilder as well; I
> haven't checked the .nib files but imagine they'll port fine too.
> That's the good news.
>
> Now the bad news. The Newton.app source code relies on a library called
> "TCKit", which was probably the author's private library. TCKit is not
> distributed online -- I don't know if we can get access to the source
> without $$$. I've sent mail to the TCKit author and we'll see.
>
> Sean
>

Ah, thanks for beating me to the finish line! Now, you'll be responsible for
it ;-)

-Laurent.

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