Inside Mac For Mac OS 8 Read Me

Welcome to the WWDC '96 release of Inside Macintosh for Mac OS 8. This Read Me provides a road map to the chapters within this folder, provides information on viewing the Acrobat files contained within this folder, and lists the methods you can use to give us your feedback on the Inside Macintosh documentation. Road Map To Inside Macintosh For Mac OS 8 Documentation The chapters in the folder Inside Macintosh for Mac OS 8 provide preliminary information on many of the constants, data types, and functions for developer use in Mac OS 8. The chapters present overviews or introductions that cover the human interface, Apple events, file navigation and access, text handling, the microkernel, and I/O. In addition, reference chapters for many managers and services are also provided. Each file in the folder represents a book. Figure 1 shows the book titles and the chapters contained within each book. Figure 1. Books and chapters in the folder Inside Macintosh for Mac OS 8 Road Map For Applications For information on the features of Mac OS 8 for applications, read the following chapters and books: • For an overview of new features supported by the Toolbox, such as human interface objects, panels, window groups, imaging objects, and themes, see the chapter "Introduction to the Mac OS 8 Toolbox" in Human Interface Toolbox. For reference information on human interface objects, see the chapter "HIObject Class Reference" in Human Interface Toolbox. • For an overview of how Apple events are used pervasively throughout Mac OS 8 by system services as well as other programs, see the chapters "Introduction to the Mac OS 8 Event Model" and "Event Model Reference" in Apple Events in Mac OS 8. For information on how Apple events are processed by the Toolbox, see "Toolbox Event Routing" and "Toolbox Events Reference" in Human Interface Toolbox. • For an overview of the Mac OS 8 microkernel, including information on tasks, processes, scheduling, preemption, multithreading, allocation of memory, and other services, see the chapter "About Mac OS 8" in Microkernel and Core System Services. See subsequent chapters in Microkernel and Core System Services for reference information on many of these topics. • For information on the Mac OS 8 File Manager, Navigation Services, and other file services, as well as reference information on the Mac OS 8 File Manager, see File Navigation and Access. • For information on the extensive support for text handling that enables you to develop your application for a worldwide market, such as support for Unicode, locales, and the use of text objects, see "Introduction to Text Handling and Internationalization" in Text Handling and Internationalization. • For information on creating resources that are new in Mac OS 8, see ResEdit 3.0 User's Guide. • For information related to human interface elements in an application, see Human Interface Guidelines for Mac OS 8 and Apple Grayscale Specification for System 7.5. • For information on the use…