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Inside Macintosh: Overview
As the first book in the Inside Macintosh series, Inside Macintosh: Overview provides a general introduction to the Macintosh Operating System, the Macintosh Toolbox, and other system software services that your application or other software component can use.Inside Macintosh: Overview illustrates how to write a Macintosh application by gradually dissecting the source code of a very simple sample application called Venn Diagrammer. It describes the principal programming techniques you can use to develop Macintosh applications, including
Inside Macintosh: Overview also provides guidelines for writing software that is compatible with all supported Macintosh computers and provides an introduction to the available languages and platforms that you can use to develop Macintosh software.
- guiding program execution with the event loop
- storing application data in resources
- handling menu selections
- using relocatable blocks of memory
- sharing processing time and the available memory with other open applications
Availability: Click below to obtain Inside Macintosh: Overview in any of the following formats.
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Book Contents
- Figures, Tables, and Listings
- Preface - About This Book
- Chapter 1 - Introduction
- Chapter 2 - Memory
- Chapter 3 - Resources
- Chapter 4 - Events
- Chapter 5 - Drawing
- Chapter 6 - Windows
- Chapter 7 - Dialog Boxes
- Chapter 8 - Menus
- Chapter 9 - Processes
- Afterward - Going Further
- Appendix A - Constants, Types, and Variables
- Appendix B - Utility Routines
- Appendix C - Dialog Code
- Appendix D - Resource Code
- Appendix E - User Interface Code
- Glossary