MacApp Cookbook Draft 1

( ti Macintosh® MacApp Cookbook Apple Programmer's and Developer's Association 1/26189 Draft 1 MacApp Cookbook Contents Figures and tables ii Preface About the Cookbook 1 About this book 1 Other materials you'll need 1 How to use this book 2 What it contains 2 Visual cues 2 Roadmap to the MacApp documentation suite 3 Chapter 1 Introduction to the Cookbook 5 A MacApp translation guide 5 Chapter 2 The Apple Menu 6 2.1 Creating an "About Your Application" entry 2.2 Creating a separate "About ..." resource 6 2.3 Animating the "About ... " entry 6 6 Chapter 3 AppleTalk, Multiuser, and Network Considerations Using IO completion routines 8 Leaving files open for other users Chapter 4 Applications 7 8 9 3.1 Creating objects: an overview 3.2 Creating an application 10 9 i Draft 1 MacApp Cookbook 1/26189 Step 1 Initializing the Toolbox 11 Step 2 Initializing printing 12 Step 3 Assigning the application signature and the main file type 13 Step 4 Declaring a subclass of !Application 13 Step 5 Defining your application initialization method 14 Step 6 Instantiating your application class 14 Step 7 Calling your initialization method 15 Step 8 Calling the Run method 15 Continuing from here 15 3.3 Opening an application without opening a document 16 Chapter 5 Browser 17 Chapter 6 The Clipboard and Cut, Copy, and Paste 19 Creating a Clipboard view 20 Run-time summary of creating a clipboard view 20 Overview of your responsibilities 21 Step 1 Define a handle type 21 Step 2 Define a resource type 22 Step 3. Override MakeViewForAlienClipboard 22 Step 4. Override methods for your Clipboard view type 23 Step 5. Override the ContainsClipType method 23 Step 6. Override the GivePasteData method 23 Step 7. Override 'IView.WriteToDeskScrap for your Clipboard view Step 8. Create a Clipboard document, if desired 25 Step 9. Add a Show Clipboard menu item to your resource file 25 Continuing from here 27 Supporting Cut and Copy commands 28 Supporting the Paste command 29 Step 1 Call the global procedure CanPaste 29 Step 2 Define and create a paste command object 29 Step 3 Retrieve the data to be pasted 30 Continuing from here 30 Supporting a private scrap type 31 ii MACAPP COOKBOOK 25 MacAppCookbook 1/26189 Draft 1 ( Chapter 7 Collections Chapter 8 Color 33 35 Chapter 9 Compatibility 37 Checking system software 38 Checking hardware 38 Future compatibility rules 38 Converting from MacApp 1.1 to MacApp 2.0 Unit dependencies 40 Debugging 40 Document changes 41 View changes 42 Windows 43 Your views 43 TEViews and Dialog Boxes 44 Command objects 44 !Command 44 Tracking methods 44 Editing commands 45 ( Chapter 10 Controls and Control Views Chapter 11 Cursors Chapter 12 38 47 49 Changing the Cursor Shape Cursor region 50 50 Debugging in MacApp 51 Writing a Fields Method 52 Step 1 Declare a Fields method for your document class 52 Step 2 Define the Fields method 52 CONTENTS ill Draft 1 Mac.App Cookbook Step 3 Step 4 Call Inh…