pff@beach.cis.ufl.edu (Pablo Fernicola) (06/26/89)
I came across a very good book for people getting started with programing on the Mac using Lightspeed C. The name of the book is Macintosh Programming Primer Inside the toolbox using THINK's LightspeedC by Dave Mark and Cartwright Reed Addison Wesley $24.95 I have Inside Macintosh and Macintosh Revealed, but needed something else to help me start out. This is it. Not only it helps you with using the compiler (which manual is sometimes confusing) but it also helps with Resedit, translating those calls from Pascal, and has about 6 or 7 programs that guide you through the Toolbox routines. Out of the three C books for the Mac that I know of, this is the best. The other two are published by SAMS and, IMHO, are not good. Two thumbs up!!!! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- pff@beach.cis.ufl.edu or pff@mil.ufl.edu Pablo Fernicola- Machine Intelligence Laboratory University of Florida Do disclaimers protect me, or my employer? -- pff@beach.cis.ufl.edu Pablo Fernicola - Machine Intelligence Laboratory - UF "That has nothing to do with computers; it is software." Standard disclaimer with System 7.0 extensions and inheritance elements applies.
jnh@ecemwl.ncsu.edu (Joseph N. Hall) (06/27/89)
In article <20511@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> pff@beach.cis.ufl.edu () writes: >I came across a very good book for people getting started with >programing on the Mac using Lightspeed C. >The name of the book is > > Macintosh Programming Primer > Inside the toolbox using > THINK's LightspeedC I agree. This is the ONLY book about programming the Mac in the "C" environment that I can recommend, and I recommend it to anyone interested in that topic. The shorter examples are a welcome change from the "Macintosh Revealed" text editor, which was just too big ... these are small enough that you can type one in and play with it in an hour or two (if you type well enough). They do a decent job of introducing the loathsome Finder resources, too, but I don't remember seeing them mention that the Creator id in the application must be set properly, at least not in any conspicuous way in the chapter on the Finder resources. But I guess after you read the Primer, and the Tech Note about "Bundles," and the appropriate parts of IM, you'll figure it out sooner or later ... Good stuff, basically. Their "C" style is readable, if not quite up to the standards of a good Un*x hacker ...