paul@unisoft.UUCP (Paul Campbell) (07/06/85)
<oog> A Review - "Macintosh Revealed: Volume One - Unlocking the Toolbox" By Stephen Chernicoff, Published by Apple Press Here is a quick review of what I discovered while wandering through a book store this afternoon. At last a book about how to program the Mac rather than another of those "how to use something that is really obvious anyway, but I need the money so I wrote it ..." books. This volume (516 pages) is about how to use the Mac, it covers the same ground that Inside Mac does but is far more understandable. It describes the real basic stuff in the system, a companion volume "Programming with the Toolbox" describes higher things like menus, events etc. I have not yet seen this on the shelves. The diagrams of data structures are really good, it includes lots of hints and warnings tucked in and around the appropriate places. Chapter Contents 1 Intro 2 Misc Tools 3 Mem management 4 Quickdraw Ports 5 More QD 6 Resources 7 Code Segments 8 Characters/fonts Lots of Appendices It has really gross chapter headings "Any port in a storm", "Thanks for the memory", "Quick on the draw" urgh!!:-(. The examples are based around Pascal but are easily interpreted in C, there are also assembler examples and tips. It doen't totally replace IM but you could work without it. I found this in Stacey's SF at $27.95. I have no relation to the writer, publisher etc and I still recomend it. Paul Campbell ..!ucbvax!unisoft!paul "Streams? ... isn't that just another name for QIO? ... Unix gets more like VMS every day ... (thats good or bad depending on your viewpoint)"
bill@crystal.UUCP (07/10/85)
*** REPLACE THIS LINE WITH YOUR MESSAGE *** > A Review - "Macintosh Revealed: Volume One - Unlocking the Toolbox" > By Stephen Chernicoff, Published by Apple Press My friendly, local B.Dalton Book Store *had* several copies; every one turned out to be missing a couple of pages, and were returned to Apple Press/Hayden. No word on when replacements will arrive. Since *all* copies they had, purchased through distributors and Hayden, had the same pages missing, it may be a problem with the entire first printing, implying an n-week wait for a reprint. Sorry, the person I talked to did not know which pages were missing... bill -- William Cox Computer Sciences Department University of Wisconsin, Madison WI bill@uwisc ...{ihnp4,seismo,allegra}!uwvax!bill