Re: Developing Apple Lisa Office System applications?

David,

Thanks for taking the time to write such an informative response and point me to these resources. If I am able to produce something, I will definitely make a post about it here. I'm glad that the documentation and disk images still exist, tracking down resources for older platforms can be quite challenging.

On Thursday, October 23, 2014 6:01:10 PM UTC-4, DAVID T CRAIG wrote:
>
> Hello Lincoln,
>
> Developing Apple Lisa desktop tools requires the APPLE LISA TOOLKIT.
> Documentation and disk images for this may be found at:
>
> http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/apple/lisa/toolkit_3.0/
>
> The Lisa Workshop development environment is needed for Toolkit
> development. The toolkit is based on an extended version of the Pascal
> language called Clascal which added object-oriented programming to the
> Apple Lisa Pascal language. Clascal is documented in the above
> Bitsavers.org web site. I used the Toolkit long ago and found it very
> powerful, but you have to read a lot to understand what you need to know
> given the object libraries are rather extensive. Apple provides a very good
> introduction to Clascal.
>
> I have attached 2 articles about the Toolkit and Clascal which may be
> useful. Some other Lisa stuff is also provided that may interest you too.
>
> Apple also provided what was called QUICK PORT that allowed you to create
> programs for the Office System Desktop environment, but Quick Port was not
> as versatile as the Toolkit. But Quick Port was easier to use if your
> program's desktop requirements were not extensive. I also believe Quick
> Port did not provide access to the Toolkit libraries. I recall Quick Port
> was documented in the Lisa Operating System reference manual set (3
> volumes).
>
> I've also BCCed one of the Lisa Toolkit's authors in case he has anything
> to add or correct any mistakes here.
>
> Hope this helps. If you actually produce a Lisa Toolkit tool please let me
> and this LisaList know.
>
> Regards,
> David Craig
>
> ===
>
> On October 23, 2014, at 12:08 PM, lincol..._at_email.domain.hidden <javascript:>
> wrote:
>
> > I'm interested in learning about what it would take to write a Lisa
> application that would actually be recognized by and run inside the Office
> System instead of the Programmer's Workshop. I've read some documentation,
> and see in an old notice to potential third-party developers, Apple
> mentioned the future existence of an "Application Developer's Toolkit" that
> would allow this, due to be available in late 1983. Did this product ever
> actually get released?
>
>

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