Macintosh C Programming By Example

!ill ACINTOSH®PROGRAMMING SERIES DISK INCLUDED A Step-by-Step Guide to Developing Programs with THINK C™ KURT W. G. MAnHIES THOM HOGAN KURT W. G. MATIHIES THOM HOGAN PUBLISHED BY Microsoft Press A Division of Microsoft Corporation One Microsoft Way Redmond, Washington 98052-6399 Copyright© 1991 by Kurt W.G. Matthies All rights reserved. No part of the contents of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means without the written permission of the publisher. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Matthies, Kurt W.G., 1954- Macintosh C programming by example : a step by step guide to developing programs with Think CI Kurt W.G. Matthies, Thom Hogan. p. cm. Includes index. ISBN 1-55615-357-0: $34.95 ($44.95 Can.) 1. Macintosh (Computer)--Programming. 2. C (Computer program language) I. Hogan, Thom, 1952- II. Title. QA76.8.M3M37648 1991 005.265--dc20 91-37506 CIP Printed and bound in the United States of America. 123456789 MLML 654321 Distributed to the book trade in Canada by Macmillan of Canada, a division of Canada Publishing Corporation. Distributed to the book trade outside the United States and Canada by Penguin Books Ltd. Penguin Books Ltd., Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England Penguin Books Australia Ltd., Ringwood, Victoria, Australia Penguin Books N.Z. Ltd., 182-190 Wairau Road, Auckland 10, New Zealand British Cataloging-in-Publication Data available. Apple~ Mac~ and Macintosh® are registered trademarks of Apple Computer, Inc. Macreations "': Tycho "': and Tycho Table Maker™ are trademarks of Macreations Publishing Corp. Symantec® and THINK C® are registered trademarks of Symantec Corporation. Acquisitions Editor: Matjorie Schlaikjer Project Editor: Erin O'Connor Technical Editor: Jeff Carey CONTENTS PREFACE vii I. PROGRAMMING THE MACINTOSH WITH THINK C I 2. USING THINK C 9 3. ACPRIMER 35 4. MACINTOSH APPLICATION FUNDAMENTALS 69 5. MACINTOSH MEMORY MANAGEMENT 87 6. INTRODUCTION TO THE GENERIC APPLICATION 113 7. A SHELL THAT MANAGES MULTIPLE DOCUMENTS 137 8. SCROLLING WINDOWS 163 9. LOSER: A LESSON IN PROGRAM DESIGN 191 10. THE MACINTOSH FILE SYSTEM 217 II. BROWSER: OUR CULMINATING APPLICATION 237 APPENDIX: SYSTEM 7.0 COMPATIBILITY 259 INDEX 270 PRIFACI Why anyone would want to do what I do for a living-sit day and night in front of a stolid, one-eyed deity and wrestle with abstract bits of mind-fluff-continues to be a source of wonder-to me and to my long-suffering family. Is it for the long hours, the backaches, the spreading middle, the chronic tic of eye strain? For all this a…