Re: Videx's 'Desktop Calendar' for Lisa available here...

From: Shirl Casner <shirlgato_at_email.domain.hidden>
Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2010 08:12:27 -0600

Hi,

| While we're on the topic, I've had some ideas
| of simple Lisa programs I wanted to write, does anyone know where
| information on exactly how to do so could be procured?

You need the Lisa Workshop development system and its documentation. Ray's web site has all of these I believe.

You would need to write your Lisa program in Lisa Pascal since that was the key language for the Lisa. Lisa BASIC and Lisa C existed, but Pascal was designed to interface to Apple's libraries. The Workshop was setup to produce programs for the Workshop environment which ment a text interface. You could also use the QuickDraw library to create a graphical interface (see Apple's QDSample or David Redhed's QD demo program for details). Using the Workshop by itself to create a Lisa desktop program required the Lisa Toolkit and Clascal which involved a lot more work, but obviously better results. Not sure if the Toolkit and Clascal documents are on the internet, I have these as paper copies.

On March 19, 2010, at 11:21 PM, Kevin Keith wrote:

> Not that I know of. I did send an email to the company that sold
> Omnis asking if they had still had an archive. Most lisa software,
> AFAIK, was command line, written for use with the Pascal Workshop
> environment. There was a program, for LisaOS, called LisaMandelbrot,
> but it only existed in source code. I did manage to find a copy of
> the source here: http://web.archive.org/web/19990221182130/galena.tjs.org/tom/files.html
> . Good luck with that. While we're on the topic, I've had some ideas
> of simple Lisa programs I wanted to write, does anyone know where
> information on exactly how to do so could be procured?
>
> Many Thanks
> -Kevin

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