Macintosh Revealed. Vol 1 Unlocking the Toolbox. Vol 2 Programming with the Toolbox.

Vol 1: I.S.B.N.: 0-8104-6551-5

Vol 2: I.S.B.N.: 0-8104-6561-2

Autor : Stephen Chernicoff

Colección : Apple Press

Hyden Book Company 9th printing 1993

Master the secrets of your Macintosh with Macintosh Revealed. This two-volume set explains the ROM routines of the Macintosh Toolbox, the tightly engineered code that ensures that all Macintosh software consistently shares the same easy, intuitive user interface.

Volume 1 Unlocking the Toolbox.

Unlocking the Toolbox, presents the foundations on which the Toolbox is built. Learn how to call Toolbox routines from your application programs, how to manage the Macintosh’s memory, how to use QuickDraw graphics routines, and how to display character text. A chapter on resources introduces this concept, one of the cornerstones of Macintosh software design. Another chapter describes how application programs communicate with the Macintosh Finder.

Programming examples are written in Pascal. An extensive Reference section at the end of each chapter summarizes the essential information about each Toolbox routine and data structure. Assembly-language reference boxes include all you need to know to use the Toolbox from the Macintosh’s native 68000 assembly language.

Once you’ve mastered the fundamentals presented here, you’ll be ready for Volume Two, Programming with the Toolbox. There you’ll learn about the high- level parts of the Toolbox that implement the features of the Macintosh user interface, such as overlapping windows, pulldown menus, scroll bans, and dialog boxes.

Volume 2 Programming with the Toolbox.

Volume Two, Programming with the Toolbox, describes the higher-level parts of the Toolbox that implemented the revolutionary Macintosh user interface. Here you’ll learn how to monitor the user’s actions with the mouse and keyboard, how to structure your program to respond to them, and how to incorporate such distinctive Macintosh features as overlapping windows, pulldown menus, cut-and-paste text editing, scroll bars, and dialog boxes. The final chapter shows how to use the Macintosh file system for disk input and output.

The principles of Toolbox programming are demonstrated by a fully worked Pascal application program, a simple interactive text editor named MiniEdit. As each part of the Toolbox is discussed, its use is illustrated in detail by examining the relevant routines of the example program. An extensive Reference section summarizes the essential information about each

Toolbox routine and data structure, organized in concise form for ready access. Assembly-language reference boxes include all you need to know to use the Toolbox from the Macintosh’s native 68000 assembly language.

Characteristics:

Format : Illustrated soft cover

Pages: Vol 1: 516; Vol 2: 626

Weight: Vol 1: 2,10 lb (953 g); Vol 2: 2,44 lb (1.107 g)

Dimensions:

Vol 1, High: 29,4 cm wide: 19,2 cm. Thickness: 2,7 cm.

Vol 1, High: 29,4 cm wide: 19,2 cm. Thickness: 3,1 cm.