gillies@p.cs.uiuc.edu (03/16/90)
Before you blow $100 for the (rather) unintelligible Inside Macintosh,
I suggest you look at a tutorial in order to understand what you're
getting yourself into. Here are two good ones.
Macintosh programming with TURBO PASCAL, Tom Swan, 1987
Macintosh Programming Primer
Inside the toolbook with LightspeedC
Steven Chernicoff + someone else
Addison Wesley
The last one is slightly better, since it employs ResEdit rather than
an (arcane) resource compiler, and does a little bit more. These are
the only semi-advanced tutorials I know of. None of the rest I've
seen cover resource files or any subtle points (like scrollbars,
*sheesh*). These books will tell you write a macdraw, but anything
more advanced (inits, cdevs, fkeys, drivers) takes a lot of painful
digging (technotes, usenet/apple examples, mactutor magazine).
To get in the mood, why dont you burn a $100 bill.
Don W. Gillies, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Illinois
1304 W. Springfield, Urbana, Ill 61801
ARPA: gillies@cs.uiuc.edu UUCP: {uunet,harvard}!uiucdcs!gillies