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Education #5b

Subject:Education #5b - Bill Michael's Input
From:radar@SMT-Inc.com
Date: Mon, 4 Mar 1996 15:48:03 -0400

[In response to mail from Bill Michael]

I'm now leaning in a slightly more 'open' direction for the pilot project. Details in Education #6, but you now have a critical piece to offer for my more grand idea :-).

[Bill writes:]

Suggestions: I like the "Hello Universe" idea. This should be a full-blown application that really doesn't have to _do_ anything. Come up with a splash screen that hides the menu bar and will time out or go away on a mouse click, have working file menu that will open/close/save/print a HelloUniverse document (contains TEXT/STYL resources and a PICT resource, possibly a 'snd ' resource, plus stuff in the data fork?), a working edit menu that can call up a Preferences dialog box, a Font menu, etc. The window for the HelloUniverse documents should be resizable and scrollable. A floating 'tool' windoid should have a text tool and a magnifying glass (that works on the PICT portion of the document) plus a speaker icon to hear the 'snd '. All error handling should be as robust as possible. Animation somewhere would be a plus... maybe a 'screen saver' type routine that puts a flying radar dish going across the main window when you don't do anything for a couple minutes? Or just on the splash screen? (Either way, you can cover CopyBits and double-buffering with it...)

EXACTLY! I didn't think my 'vision' was all that visionary ;-). It's gratifying to see that other folks arrive at a very similar set of ideas to solve the basic issue we're concentrating on. It validates the approach.

THANK YOU.... This is just the kind of input I'll need. I DID work with the calls directly on my early projects, but aside from getting technically rusty because i spent the last five years as a manager, i've also gotten spoiled by the current batch of more powerful frameworks and development environments. I'm NO expert on the inner workings of the Mac, and am looking for those who are to help me settle on EXACTLY what the curriculum should include. ALL OF THE ABOVE sounds reasonable to me, and I'll be looking to some of the other experts to help flesh this out further.

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