Type of Article: MacTech News Article

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact:

Neil Ticktin
Publisher, MacTech Magazine
Xplain Corporation
Phone: 805-494-9797
Fax: 805-494-9798
publisher@www.mactech.com

MACTECH CD NOW INCLUDES ALL OF “DEVELOP”

Westlake Village, CA — May 9, 1997 — Xplain Corporation, the publisher of
MacTech magazine, today announced that it is now shipping a new version of
the MacTech CD including the entire history of ‘develop’, Apple’s Technical
Journal.

As one of the first CD-ROM publishers, MacTech Magazine has continually
updated it’s historical CD.

From: Jeff Beeghly (sd@compumedia.com)

WindowDetective is a tool which allows you to view the WindowRecord and
GrafPort records of any window. Once you have viewed the contents of a
certain window, you may print the data, copy the data to the clipboard, or
save the data as a text file.

Developers can use WindowDetective to aid them in their development cycle.
Are Quickdraw calls not drawing in the right location and you believe the
Regions in you application (visible, clip, etc…) are getting corrupted?
Use WindowDetective!

BrainScan Software is pleased to announce the release of BrainHex 1.1, an
updated version of the popular BrainHex file editor and browser for
MacOS(tm) based computers.

Billed as “the world’s greatest (and noisiest) hexadecimal file editor for
MacOS(tm),” BrainHex allows the user to view and edit the contents of
either fork (data or resource) of any MacOS file in hexadecimal code as
well as ASCII characters and also provides full-featured editing of file
system information, the ability to edit values in many formats and much
more.

If you are planning to attend WWDC in San Jose, please stop by the
CodeWarrior Lounge (Room J-3).

“When development manager Ian LeGrow asked Corel Corporation’s
management if he could port Windows-based CorelDRAW to the Mac OS
platform, the idea was received less than enthusiastically.
“In the summer of 1995, my managers were under the impression that the
Macintosh was near death,” says LeGrow.