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Macintosh Revealed Volume Three 1989

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Macintosh Revealed, Volume Three: Mastering the Toolbox is Stephen Chernicoff's third volume on programming the Macintosh Toolbox, published by Hayden Books, a division of Howard W. Sams & Company, Indianapolis, © 1989 (first edition, first printing 1989); ISBN 0-672-48402-1, Library of Congress catalog card number 85-8611. Technical review was by Scott Knaster. The scan hosted here has 614 pages.

The volume covers the parts of the Toolbox that the first two volumes left out: writing your own window, control and menu definitions, device drivers, printing, sound and desk accessories. The related-titles page at the front still lists volume four as "Programming the Macintosh II (forthcoming)" by Chernicoff and Geri Younggren; it was published in 1990 as Expanding the Toolbox.

Contents

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Book page numbers.

  • Preface; Acknowledgments
  • 1 Mastering the Tools (p. 1)
  • 2 Rolling Your Own (p. 5): customising QuickDraw, windows, controls and menus; WDEF, CDEF and MDEF resources
  • 3 In the Driver's Seat (p. 93): device drivers, the unit table, device control entries, driver I/O queues; DRVR resources
  • 4 Looking Good on Paper (p. 127): Macintosh printers, the printer resource file, print records, printing dialogs, document printing, the spool file, printing from the Finder; reference section on printing data structures (pp. 197–246)
  • 5 Sound and Fury (p. 247): the sound generator, defining and playing sounds
  • 6 Playing with a Full Desk (p. 281): desk accessories, with a stopwatch desk accessory as the worked example
  • Appendix A Toolbox Summary (p. 337); B Resource Formats (p. 361); C Reference Figures (p. 367); D Reference Tables (p. 371); E Error Codes (p. 377); F Summary of Trap Macros and Trap Words (p. 385); G Summary of Assembly-Language Variables (p. 415); H Program Listings (p. 421)
  • Glossary (p. 553); Index (p. 597)

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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Download: Macintosh_Revealed_Volume_Three_1989.pdf (24.1 MB)

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