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Programmer's Guide to MPW Volume I 1991

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Programmer's Guide to MPW, Volume I: Exploring the Macintosh Programmer's Workshop is a book by Mark Andrews in Addison-Wesley's Macintosh Inside Out series, © 1991, ISBN 0-201-57011-4. The Library of Congress record (card number 90-48237) is dated 1990. Nick Pilch was the technical reviewer. The text and index are numbered to p. 576; the scan has 598 PDF pages.[1]

MPW, the Macintosh Programmer's Workshop, is Apple's command-line development environment for the Macintosh. Part One of the book covers the MPW Shell; Part Two builds a complete application, the Creation program, and explains how MPW programs use the Event Manager, Resource Manager and Memory Manager.[1]

Contents

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  • Part One, The MPW Shell: 1 MPW and the Macintosh (3), with the history and installation of MPW; 2 the MPW programming environment, commands and scripts; 3 Menus and Dialogs (161), including Commando dialogs; 4 the MPW special character set, search and replace, and pattern matching
  • Part Two, Writing an Application: chapters 5 to 7 on writing MPW applications and on the Event Manager, Resource Manager and Memory Manager (chapter 7, MPW and the Memory Manager, 387); chapter 8 builds a complete application
  • Appendices: A The MPW Command Set (471); B Commands Arranged by Category (525); C The Creation.p Program (531); D Creation.r (553); E Creation.make (557); Bibliography (561); Index (563)

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Download: Programmers_Guide_to_MPW_1990.pdf (41 MB)

References

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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Mark Andrews, Programmer's Guide to MPW, Volume I, Addison-Wesley, 1991, ISBN 0-201-57011-4. Title and copyright pages (PDF pp. 2-4), contents (PDF pp. 6-16), preface chapter outline p. xxi, index pp. 563-576.
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