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MacApp® 2.0b12 Release Notes March 5, 1990 QuickStart This release of MacApp requires MPW 3.1 or 3.0 final. It will not work with MPW 2.0.2 and beta versions of MPW 3.0. If your computer has enough memory, setting the RAM Cache to 64K will speed up MPW significantly. Important Notes to b5 Users These release notes describe the changes since 2.0b5. It includes sections summarizing the changes in particular areas of MacApp, followed by a detailed changed list. The summarized sections describe important changes to MacApp. Make sure you read them as they tell you what to change in order to move your b5 application to this release. Installing To install MacApp on your system, do the following: 1. On your hard disk, create a folder named MacApp. 2. Copy all files/folders from all MacApp disks into the MacApp folder. NOTE: If you only intend to use the pre-built MacApp® libraries or do not intend to build the Examples, then only copy the first 3 disks. 3. Move the contents of any folder that is titled "X!" to folder "X". 4. Drop a copy of UserStartup•MacApp into your MPW folder. 5. Launch MPW. UserStartup•MacApp will be automatically executed. If the MacApp folder cannot be automatically located, you will be asked to find it. 6. Optionally, create a folder to hold your Application source files, Rez input file, and make file and place it in the MacApp folder. The naming conventions for your application's files are: MYourApp.p {The optional Main program} UYourApp.p {The optional interface part of your application unit} UYourApp. .p {The optional include file[s] that contain the implementation of the unit. The portion of the name[s] can be anything though it is often inc1. } OR --------------------- YourApp.p {The Main program. See Nothing.p for an example. } AND -------------------- YourApp.r {The optional Rez input file. Default.r will be used if you do not supply an input MacApp 2.0b12 Release Notes Page file } YourApp.MAMake {The optional Make file. } You can copy all of these files at once in MPW by typing: duplicate "Source Volume: YourApp " "Dest Volume:" If you prefer to use a different naming convention, you may have to modify the MacApp build system. Building Build Instructions: 1. You may need to create a MAMake file. See the MacApp Reference Manual, or the Calc sample program to learn how. 2. In MPW, set yo…