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From: Gene Backlin (gbacklin@marizack.com)
Date: Sat, 14 Jun 97 01:24:33 -0500
To: MacDev-1-Moderator@listmail.xplain.com
Subject: Update Diskette for OPENSTEP
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
June 14, 1997
UPDATE DISKETTE FOR “DEVELOPING NEXTSTEP APPLICATIONS” TARGETS OPENSTEP 4.2
CHICAGO, IL–Gene Backlin, author of the book “Developing NeXTSTEP
Applications”, ISBN 0-672-30658-1, published by SAM’s Publishing, has
released a new OPENSTEP compliant diskette version of the application
projects that accompanied the original NeXTSTEP text.
The new diskette release includes:
– Applications that are created within the text, are now OPENSTEP
4.2 for Mach compliant.
– The comprehensive tutorial organization of the book to text is
retained.
– Practical, real-world example programs that demonstrate the new
classes in OPENSTEP 4.2 for Mach, including distributed objects,
image and view handling, drag and drop and much more.
“Developing NeXTSTEP Applications” proved to be an indispensable reference
for NeXTSTEP developers. With the OPENSTEP diskette release, developers
will now have the latest OPENSTEP 4.2 for Mach application projects, while
still maintaining the text’s structure used for developmental theory and
guidance.
AUTHOR’S NOTES FOR THE DISKETTE UPDATE
“With the text, “Developing NeXTSTEP Applications”, the reader was taken by
the hand and introduced to the NeXTSTEP developing environment. The
diskette that accompanied the text was not only the source code, but
complete NeXTSTEP application projects. With the release of OPENSTEP 4.2
for Mach as the “Prelude to Rhapsody”, developers are going to require the
same Object design, only now it will be under the more mature OPENSTEP
platform. This diskette update will fill that requirement. The structure of
the diskette maintains the book’s chapter layout, however all projects are
now OPENSTEP 4.2 for Mach compliant. For the developer, this will greatly
facilitate the NeXTSTEP/OPENSTEP conversion process.”
–Gene Backlin
OVERALL SYNOPSIS OF THE BOOK
Developing NEXTSTEP Applications provides beginning NeXT programmers with
an approach to the NEXTSTEP environment that lays a solid foundation. Gene
Backlin not only shows how things happen in the NeXT environment, but why
they happen as well. It serves as a tremendous reference book for NeXTSTEP
developers.
PUBLISHER NOTES FOR THE TITLE “DEVELOPING NEXTSTEP APPLICATIONS”
“Targeted to users who have some programming background, this guide
provides the information they need to master the NeXTSTEP environment, as
well as a valuable reference tool they can use and reuse in the future.
“Explore the NeXTSTEP development environment; Objective C concepts; mouse,
view, and keyboard processing; and advanced panel processing”, “Shows how
things happen in the NeXT environment and why they happen”, Only book for
the true beginning- and intermediate-level programmer”
–Sams Publishing
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Diskette Update Availibility Information:
Distribution of the diskette will be directly through the author, Gene
Backlin. For further information contact: gbacklin@MariZack.com.
Original Text Information:
Developing NeXTSTEP Applications
By Gene Backlin
1st Edition March 1995 (US)
604 pages, ISBN: 0672306581, $45.00 (US)
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