[OY] PAD generators

[Andre Garzia]

On Jan 28, 2004, at 6:15 AM, Brian Yennie wrote:

> Richard,
>
> Is there a Mac PAD generator floating around?
> I've been keeping an eye out for (relatively) easy projects that I 
> could cook up and would get Rev noticed at least a few times, and PAD 
> seems pretty easy.
> With that said, I've never seen a PAD generator and the only link I 
> saw was a Windoze generator.
>
>

Folks,

I've done some little research on PAD files, there are two "standards", 
there's the one windows uses that is generated by for example, 
padmaker, and there's the one MacShareware.net and others are trying to 
push to the mac community. The mac one is based on plist files which 
are very easy to generate, you can use plist editor from XCode/devtools 
or they make available a nice cocoa plist editor customized for MacPAD 
files... so you got this scenario:

Windows PAD files  --- generated by padmaker and others, used by lots 
of download sites.
MacPAD files - plist files not compatible with windows PAD generated by 
hand or by cocoa MacPAD utility. They also provide a nice "framework" 
for cocoa apps to read and check their own version based on those plist 
files, pretty cool.
MacPAD --- FileMaked based utility that generate Windows PAD Files

uh!? yes... there are two things named MacPAD, and they are not the 
same. There is only one site (that I know) accepting MacPAD files, 
thats MacShareware.net, and they are talking about the plist one. There 
are lot of sites accepting Windows PAD Files, but I think they do not 
distribute mac programs...

guess what....

URLS:

MacPAD that generate Windows PAD Files made by Chicken Girl.
http://www.chickengirl.com

MacPAD plist sdk, assembled by MacShareware.net
http://macshareware.net/sdk.html

Cheers, hope it helps


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