GO Corporation – PenPoint Application Writing Guide
GO Corporation PenPoint Application Writing Guide, teaches how to write an application for the PenPoint operating system.
It begins by introducing the PenPoint operating system and the Application Framework, which is the framework for all PenPoint applications. After discussing how to design an application, the book describes the environment in which you develop applications, and GO's coding conventions.
The remainder of the book is devoted to tutorials and sample programs that show you how to build a variety of sample applications—beginning with an extremely simple application and concluding with a comprehensive one that implements most of the features required by a complete PenPoint application.
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Artifact Details
GO Corporation
United States
English
March, 1992
Perfect bound softcover book.
Table of Contents
- Chapter 1 / Introduction
- Chapter 2 / PenPoint System Overview
- Chapter 3 / Application Concepts
- Chapter 4 / PenPoint Class Manager
- Chapter 5 / Developing an Application
- Chapter 5 / A Simple Application (Empty App)
- Chapter 6 / Creating Objects (Hello World: Toolkit)
- Chapter 7 / Creating a New Class (Hello World: Custom Window)
- Chapter 8 / Saving and Restoring Data (Counter App)
- Chapter 9 / Handling Input (Tic-Tac-Toe)
- Chapter 10 / Refining the Application (Tic-Tac-Toe)
- Chapter 11 / Releasing the Application
- Appendix / Sample Code
- Glossary
- Contributors
- Index
8.5" x 10.75" x .85" (646 pages)
0-201-60857-X
M6XVR9DA1K
April, 1992
Acquired from developer
2026-06-06
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History
The PenPoint Application Writing Guide is a developer manual issued as a volume in GO Corporation's GO Technical Library and published by Addison-Wesley Publishing Company.1 It was one of a set of companion volumes in the library that documented the PenPoint operating system, alongside the PenPoint User Interface Design Reference, the two-volume PenPoint Architectural Reference, the two-volume PenPoint API Reference, and PenPoint Development Tools.1
GO Corporation, founded in September 1987, developed PenPoint as a compact, 32-bit, fully object-oriented, multitasking operating system designed for mobile, pen-based computing devices.1 PenPoint had first been unveiled to the developer community in January 1991, and reached commercial release on April 16, 1992, when GO, headquartered in Foster City, California, announced the operating system's general availability.2
Alongside that release, GO began shipping the PenPoint Software Development Kit, which bundled an executable copy of the operating system with the tools and documentation developers needed to become productive.2 The guide's central subject, the PenPoint Application Framework, was the built-in framework that let developers create applications with the PenPoint look and feel while drawing on a library of generic features such as interface elements, spell, find, and handwriting recognition.2 Developers wrote PenPoint applications using the WATCOM C/386 32-bit C compiler on an 80386- or 80486-compatible PC running DOS, with a digitizer tablet to emulate a pen computer.2
GO released PenPoint with the support of more than twenty hardware providers and twenty-two software partners, whose object-oriented PenPoint applications shared a consistent user interface built on the same Application Framework the guide describes.3
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Footnotes
- GO Corporation, GO Corporation – PenPoint Application Writing Guide (image scan), March 1992
- GO Corporation, GO Corp. Announces Availability of PenPoint, April 16, 1992
- GO Corporation, GO Announces Industry-Wide Support for PenPoint, April 16, 1992
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