MPW Tools in Pascal
Volume Number: 5
Issue Number: 5
Column Tag: Programmer's Workshop
MPW Tools with TML Pascal II 
By Randy Leonard, Jacksonville, FL
Note: Source code files accompanying article are located on MacTech CD-ROM orsource code disks.
[Randy Leonard is currently employed by TML Systems, Inc. while completing
his Master’s thesis in computer science at the University of Central Florida. His
thesis involves improving the efficiency of several key algorithms in constructive
solid geometry (CSG). The thesis is written entirely with TML Pascal II and he uses
several of his own MPW Tools to aid in his development.]
The introduction of the Macintosh Programmer’s Workshop (MPW) v3.0 this
January requires that we revisit this programming environment and study its new and
exciting features as well as the significant features of previous versions of the
product. This article discusses how the MPW environment can be enhanced with the
addition of your own integrated programming tools. The type of commands introduced
here are capable of executing in the background while running MPW v3.0. This
capability enables you to continue your most important task in the foreground while
such tasks as compiling and linking of programs occur in the background. Indeed, the
tool introduced here may also run in the background.