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A Fragment Of Your Imagination 1995

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A Fragment of Your Imagination: Code Fragments and Code Resources for Power Macintosh and Macintosh Programmers is a 1995 book by Joe Zobkiw, with a foreword by Scott Knaster, published by Addison-Wesley. ISBN 0-201-48358-0; Library of Congress QA76.8.M3Z63 1995, card number 95-17045; first printing July 1995.[1] The Library of Congress record gives the extent as xx, 500 pages.[2]

The book is written for intermediate Macintosh programmers who already know the Toolbox managers. It covers code resources on 680x0 machines and code fragments on the Power Macintosh, with an example project for each kind, and is meant to add extended examples to the material in Inside Macintosh.[3] The source code for every project and a free copy of Metrowerks CodeWarrior Lite were on a CD-ROM that came with the book; the scan ends with the CodeWarrior Lite licence and the back cover.[4]

Contents

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Page numbers are from the book's contents list.[5]

  • Special Thanks, p. xv; Foreword, p. xvii; Introduction, p. xix
  • Chapter 1: Introduction to Code Resources, p. 1
  • Chapter 2: Power Macintosh Code Fragments, p. 15
  • Chapter 3: Application Extensions, p. 37
  • Chapter 4: System Extensions, p. 61
  • Chapter 5: Control Panels, p. 87
  • Chapter 6: List Definitions, p. 103
  • Chapter 7: Control Definitions, p. 121
  • Chapter 8: Window Definitions, p. 147
  • Chapter 9: HyperCard Externals, p. 165
  • Chapter 10: Photoshop Filters, p. 185
  • Chapter 11: Components, p. 211
  • Chapter 12: Advanced and Undocumented, p. 237
  • Appendix: source code for chapters 3 to 12, pp. 269-486
  • Glossary, p. 487; Index, p. 491; About the Author, p. 501

Chapter 1 includes the 32K limit on code resources and multisegment code resources (p. 12); chapter 2 covers the Mixed Mode Manager, universal procedure pointers and the Code Fragment Manager.[5]

What this book does not contain

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It is a programming book. It has no service procedures, parts lists, schematics or electrical data; Apple's repair documentation is in Category:Apple Service Source. The CD-ROM is not part of the scan, which is 518 PDF pages including the covers.

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Download: A_Fragment_Of_Your_Imagination_1995.pdf (27 MB)

References

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  1. ↑ Joe Zobkiw, A Fragment of Your Imagination (Addison-Wesley, 1995), title page and copyright page (PDF pp. 2-3). Hosted as File:A_Fragment_Of_Your_Imagination_1995.pdf.
  2. ↑ Open Library, A fragment of your imagination, record OL784875M, from Library of Congress catalogue data. Retrieved 2026-10-01.
  3. ↑ Zobkiw, A Fragment of Your Imagination, Introduction, pp. xix-xx (PDF pp. 18-19).
  4. ↑ Zobkiw, A Fragment of Your Imagination, CodeWarrior Lite licence and back cover (PDF pp. 510-518).
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Zobkiw, A Fragment of Your Imagination, Contents, pp. v-xiii (PDF pp. 5-13).
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