Inside Macintosh Vol 2

~_TM •. '- , 2 MACINTOSH USER EDUCATION Macintosh Packages: See Also: A Programmer's Guide /PACKAGES/PACK The Macintosh User Interface Guidelines The Memory Manager: A Programmer's Guide QuickDraw: A Programmer's Guide The Resource Manager: A Programmer's Guide The Window Manager: A Programmer's Guide Macintosh Control Manager Programmer's Guide The Event Manager: A Programmer's Guide The Dialog Manager: A Programmer's Guide TextEdit: A Programmer's Guide Programming Macintosh Applications in Assembly Language The Structure of a Macintosh Application Modification History: First Draft (ROM 7) Second Draft B. Hacker & C. Rose Caroline Rose 2/29/84 5/7/84 ABSTRACT Packages are sets of data structures and routines that are stored as resources and brought into memory only when needed. There's a package for presenting the standard user interface when a file is to be saved or opened, and others for doing more specialized operations such as floating-point arithmetic. This manual describes packages and the Package Manager, the part of the Macintosh User Interface Toolbox that provides access to packages. Summary of significant changes and additions since last draft: - The documentation of the International Utilities Package and the Binary-Decimal Conversion Package has been added. - There's a new feature in the Standard File Package routine SFGetFile, whereby the user can select a file name by pressing a key. 2 Macintosh Packages Programmer's Guide TABLE OF CONTENTS 3 4 6 6 8 1~ 12 15 16 20 23 23 24 25 35 35 36 41 42 47 48 51 52 About This Manual The Package Manager The International Utilities Package International Resources International Resource ~ International Resource 1 International String Comparison Using the International Utilities Package International Utilities Package Routines The Binary-Decimal Conversion Package The Standard File Package About the Standard File Package Using the Standard File Package ' Standard File Package Routines The Disk Initialization Package Using the Disk Initialization Package Disk Initialization Package Routines Summary of the Package Manager Summary of the International Utilities Package Summary of the Binary-Decimal Conversion Package Summary of the Standard File Package Summary of the Disk Initialization Package Glossary Copyright (c) 1984 Apple Computer, Inc. All rights reserved. Distribution of this draft in limited quantities does not constitute publication. ABOUT THIS MANUAL 3 ABOUT THIS MANUAL This manual describes packages and the Package Manager. The Macintosh packages include one for presenting the standard user interface when a file is to be saved or opened, and others for doing more specialzed operations such as floating-point arithmetic. The Package Manager is the part of the Macintosh User Interface Toolbox that provides access to packages. *** Eventually, this will become part of the comprehensive Inside Macintosh manual. *** You should already be familiar with the Macintosh …