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Macintosh Revealed Volume One Unlocking the Toolbox 1985

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Macintosh Revealed, Volume One: Unlocking the Toolbox is the first edition of Stephen Chernicoff's introduction to programming the Macintosh User Interface Toolbox, published in 1985 by Hayden Book Company, a division of Hayden Publishing Company, Hasbrouck Heights, New Jersey and Berkeley, California, under Apple's "Apple Press" imprint; ISBN 0-8104-6551-5, Library of Congress catalog number 85-8611. The printing line on the copyright page begins at 1 and 85, which indicates a first printing in 1985. The scan hosted here has 522 pages.

The imprint statement reads: "Apple believes that good books are important to successful computing. The Apple Press imprint is your assurance that this book has been published with the support and encouragement of Apple Computer Inc., and is the type of book we would be proud to publish ourselves." The examples are in Pascal. A second edition was published by Hayden Books in 1987 and is hosted as Macintosh Revealed 2nd Edition Volume One 1987; it keeps the same eight chapters.

Contents

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Book page numbers.

  • 1 All the Tools You Need (p. 1)
  • 2 Putting the Tools to Work (p. 9): the trap mechanism, the Pascal and assembly-language interfaces, utilities
  • 3 Thanks for the Memory (p. 49): the Memory Manager, handles and master pointers
  • 4 Any Port in a Storm (p. 97): QuickDraw coordinates, regions, bit maps and graphics ports
  • 5 Quick on the Draw (p. 171): QuickDraw drawing
  • 6 Summoning Your Resources (p. 257): the Resource Manager
  • 7 Getting Loaded (p. 301): the Segment Loader, packages, Finder information
  • 8 Upstanding Characters (p. 349): the character set, keyboards and fonts
  • Appendix A Toolbox Summary (p. 407); B Resource Formats (p. 449); C Macintosh Memory Layouts (p. 465); D Key Codes and Character Codes (p. 469); E Error Codes (p. 471); F Summary of Trap Macros and Trap Words (p. 475); G Summary of Assembly-Language Variables (p. 487)
  • Glossary (p. 489); Index (p. 513)

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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