ObjectPlant is an OOA/D tool for developing software on the Macintosh.
It has features comparable to other tools at the time that cost orders
of magnitude more.
Anyone using this software back then could tell that the author put a
lot of "blood, sweat and code" into his work. He was always quick to
reply to any bug reports and it was far from unheard of to receive
fixed builds within a day. This was one of my favorite development
tools. Right up there with CodeWarrior.
Here is a description I obtained from Info-Mac Archives:
> The ObjectPlant is a shareware program for Object Oriented Analysis
> and Design. It supports the OMT and UML notations and its main
> features are:
>
> \+ Object Model Diagrams
> \+ Event Trace Diagrams
> \+ State Diagrams
> \+ Use Case Diagrams
> \+ Exporting diagrams in either PICT or EPS format
> \+ C++ and Java code generation
> \+ Only 25 USD for a single user license
> \+ For 10 USD extra you also get a Java and C++ parser
> to reverse engineer code
>
> Requirements:
> System 7.1 or higher
> 68020 or better
>
> Info, updates etc can be found at
>
> Mikael Arctaedius
> Stockholm, Sweden
ObjectPlant was awarded a Four Mice rating from MacUser in 2000. From
Mac User Software Central in October of 2000:
> Since I'm not a programmer (yet!) I can only give a layman's
> analysis of Object Plant. What it is billed as is "an OA/OOD tool
> based on the OMT and UML notation." Okay, but for those of us who
> only speak English, Object Plant is a tool for programmers to
> diagram their code structures to make their applications easier to
> understand. It looks to do its job remarkably well, as it's
> interface is clean, uncluttered, and fully featured, with all the
> tools that one would need to document code and help analyze it. If
> you code, you might want to download it and check it out.
From VersionTracker:
> ObjectPlant has a very capable but simple code-generation template
> language/syntax. There is a manual/reference included with
> ObjectPlant. So, if you're really determined to use Obj-C, you CAN
> write your own code generation templates for whatever programming
> language you want. I have heavily customized my own C++ code-gen
> templates to format everything exactly as I want it.
I talked directly with the author of this shareware and received his
permission to upload this still terrific development tool along with a
set of serial numbers for it. The Registration number gets rid of the
nag-screen, the Code Retriever serial enables generating Object Models
from source code.
ObjectPlant Registration #:
2670758783
Code Retriever Serial #:
2230985719
He also gave his permission to upload another of his programs called
Project Planner (he made it freeware before discontinuing development
on it). It's for doing resource assignment and scheduling with Gantt
charts. Be sure to check it out too!
Note:
The ObjectPlant338Tweak.sit download changes a couple of menu items to
work around certain host OS's (Ubuntu 18.04 & derivatives) and desktop
environments (Gnome for certain) that intercept command-O keypresses
and prevent SheepShaver from knowing that it was pressed.
