Re: [MacPerl] Want to learn more about Mac GUI

[John W Baxter <jwblist@olympus.net>]

<x-flowed>At 7:43 -0800 2/5/99, Aiken, Greg wrote:
> I've got a fair amount of experience with procedural programming with Perl &
> MacPerl.  Recently, I tried the MPPE GUI example that displays a Pict in a
> window.  I wanted to try to extend this example by adding functional 'scroll
> bars' to the window (to allow the picture to be 'moved' within the window).
> While I've got Apples official Volumes 1-5 (on using the Toolbox - sorry,
> the exact title of this series of books does not immediately come to mind) -
> I'd be lying if I said I had the slightest idea as to what I'd need to do to
> accomplish this task.

Inside Mac, Vol I thorugh Vol V  (and even VI, but it is better) are 
very very old.  They are currently of use mainly for looking at 
ancient history, for someone who wants to figure out how the Toolbox 
got to where it is.

The "New" Inside Mac series had 20+ books, and was never really finished:

Developer:  How many volumes will there be in New Inside Mac?
Apple Support Engineer:  How long is your bookshelf?

(quoted, approximately, from a "d e v e l o p e r" magazine column).

The books are all available on Apple's Web site (I prefer--and 
have--hard copies of most of them).

Dave Mark's series in MacTech (available on their web site, I think, 
and certainly available on their compendium CD) is quite a decent 
introduction.  [The older the issue, the more likely something has 
changed.]

I'm not sure what helpful books are in print these days.  Everything 
reasonably recent will deal with C or C++.

   --John
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John Baxter   jwblist@olympus.net      Port Ludlow, WA, USA
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and you get rid of him for the weekend.

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