What is MacApp 2.0?

MacApp, the second generation of Apple’s object-oriented Macintosh application framework, helps users implement standard features common to most Macintosh application programs.

MacApp automatically handles standard user interface features, such as menus, desk accessories, multiple windows, dialogs, scrolling and printing. It provides a framework for using undoable commands; its memory management, exception handling and error reporting mechanism make applications more robust; and applications developed with MacApp comply with Apple Human Interface and Compatibility guidelines.

MacApp includes a high-level debugger, object inspector, a source code browser and a graphical direct-manipulation window and dialog designer called ViewEdit. Among the new features of MacApp 2.0 are: a simpler TView structure, “view” resources, optional 32-bit view coordinates, spreadsheet-like GridViews, support for the toolbox TextEdit and support for MultiFinder background tasks.

Errett, Ron (Ed.), Lee, Paulette (Ed.). (1990). The Macintosh Product Registry Fall/Winter 1990. (pg. 111). Redgate Communications Corporation.

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Architecture

Motorola 68K

System Requirements

From Mac OS 6.0

Compatibility notes

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.

Emulating this? It could probably run under: Basilisk II