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Macintosh Revealed Volume Four Expanding the Toolbox 1990

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Macintosh Revealed, Volume Four: Expanding the Toolbox is Stephen Chernicoff's fourth volume on programming the Macintosh Toolbox, published by Hayden Books, a division of Howard W. Sams & Company, Carmel, Indiana, © 1990 (first edition, first printing 1990); ISBN 0-672-48413-7, Library of Congress catalog card number 85-8611. The scan hosted here has 564 pages.

The volume covers the Toolbox additions of the Macintosh Plus, SE and Macintosh II era: system configuration and the trap dispatch table, MultiFinder, Color QuickDraw and the Palette Manager, colour windows, controls and menus, and styled TextEdit. Volume three had announced it as "Programming the Macintosh II" by Chernicoff and Geri Younggren; as published it has Chernicoff alone as author and the title Expanding the Toolbox.

Contents

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Book page numbers.

  • Preface (p. xiii); Acknowledgments (p. xv)
  • 1 Mac by Popular Demand (p. 1)
  • 2 Old Genies in New Bottles (p. 5): system configuration, dispatch table access, shutdown and restart, memory management
  • 3 Going for the Juggler (p. 55): MultiFinder memory partitions, background processing, suspend and resume events, notifications
  • 4 Chasing Rainbows (p. 97): colour fundamentals, planar, direct and mapped colour, the Color Picker, graphics devices, colour tables, palettes
  • 5 Showing Your Colors (p. 171): pixel maps, colour graphics ports, pixel patterns, colour transfer modes
  • 6 Through Rose-Colored Windows (p. 241): colour icons and cursors, colour windows, controls, dialogs and menus
  • 7 Editing with Style (p. 303): colour fonts, text styles, styled TextEdit
  • Appendix A Toolbox Summary (p. 355); B Resource Formats (p. 391); C Reference Figures (p. 401); D Reference Tables (p. 407); E Error Codes (p. 417); F Trap Macros and Trap Words (p. 429); G Assembly-Language Variables (p. 467)
  • Glossary (p. 475); Index (p. 537)

What it does not contain

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It is a programming book. It has no schematics, parts lists, voltages or service procedures. For hardware figures use Apple's service manuals (Category:Apple Service Source) and developer notes.

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