Fixed Manual

A C++ Application framework for Macintosh created by Graham Cox User Manual Edition 3, January 2000 For framework version 2.1 ©2000, Graham Cox. All Rights Reserved. MacZoop 2.1 User Manual Page 1 Welcome to MacZoop! This manual has been completely rewritten for the MacZoop 2.1 release. If you are familiar with earlier versions of MacZoop, you will notice a few changes in this version which help make MacZoop even easier to use and more powerful. If you are new to MacZoop, this manual will tell you all you need to know to get started writing Macintosh applications in next to no time. This manual completely replaces the old one. MacZoop is aimed at beginners to Macintosh and C++ programming, but also at seasoned pro- grammers who want to create applications that don’t require a huge, heavyweight and bloated framework. If you are a beginner, the Getting Started and Tutorial chapters have been written especially to ease you into MacZoop concepts comfortably. If you have more experience, you may prefer to gloss over or skip these chapters and move straight on to the later chapters which explain how MacZoop is intended to work. System requirements MacZoop can be used to create applications for any Macintosh that runs System 7.0 or later. This includes both 680x0 and Power PC models. MacZoop is Appearance savvy if you have System 8 or later, and is designed so that the same source code can be used to create applications that will work across all versions of the OS since 7.0. To use MacZoop, you require a compiler and development system. MacZoop is closely designed around Metrowerks’ CodeWarrior, but can also be used with Apple’s MPW development system. MacZoop is distributed as full, complete source code, so you can learn from the code supplied and even change it to suit your requirements if you have to. However, the basic framework is intended to work unchanged across any conceivable application, and should compile and run straight out of the box with no special difficulties. MacZoop will work with any version of CodeWarrior since DR4 or so, provided all C++ features such as exceptions and RTTI are sup- ported. All CodeWarrior Pro versions are fine, as is CodeWarrior Lite. Legal stuff MacZoop is provided ‘as is’ and its fitness for any particular purpose is not warranted. It is the copyright and intellectual property of Graham Cox, and all rights are reserved. MacZoop is completely free, but a condition of its use is that any applications created with it clearly state in both their documentation and “about box” that they are a derivative work of MacZoop. The …