[futurebasic] Re: [FB] Re: FB DropShell

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From: Jamin <benjamen@...>
Date: 01 Jan 2001 09:25:59 +1100
On Sunday, 31 December 2000, Heather Donahue <heatherd@...> wrote:
>At 4:01 PM +0100 on 12/30/00, Herbie Glunder wrote:
>
>>Herbie:
>>NavServices is quite flexible but it terribly blows up your code!
>>You can't use NavServices for 68k applications.
>>(For an example see Herbie's Dialogs... on Staz's web site.)
>
>That is one of the difficulties of backward compatibility. 
>NavServices and the PPC have been the way to go for some time now. 
>Adding code to handle NavServices and the Standard File package if 
>it's not present, run native PPC but not crash 68k machines, give 
>useful error alerts not just error codes, and do something useful 
>will end up making a pretty big application.  Then having a PPC and 
>68k version that don't work quite the same do to features isn't good 
>for users.
>

You can use NavServices for 68k. Using my code, it only adds 6000 bytes!

Even a catwalk fed Supermodel™ could fit it in :-)

http://www.ozemail.com.au/~benjamen/NavServicesDCOD_FB2_FB3.sit.hqx

Jamin