Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!unido!gmdzi!strobl From: strobl@gmdzi.UUCP (Wolfgang Strobl) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: The Mac's resource fork: does Win 3 have one? Message-ID: <3071@gmdzi.UUCP> Date: 9 Jul 90 23:35:19 GMT References: <2322.268f7cca@csc.anu.oz| <2964@gmdzi.UUCP> <7705@jarthur.Claremont.EDU> <2966@gmdzi.UUCP> <23070@boulder.Colorado.EDU> <2987@gmdzi.UUCP> <42649@apple.Apple.COM> <3038@gmdzi.UUCP> <42672@apple.Apple.COM> <3052@gmdzi.UUCP> <55714@microsoft.UUCP> Organization: GMD, Sankt Augustin, F. R. Germany Lines: 34 jamesth@microsoft.UUCP (James THIELE) writes: >In article <3052@gmdzi.UUCP> strobl@gmdzi.UUCP (Wolfgang Strobl) writes: >| >|b) Please recommend a Macintosh book similar to what Charles Petzold's >| "Programming Windows" is for MS Windows. (-; I do not want to dig >| through reference manuals. Instead I would like to read a well >| written, structured introduction into Macintosh architecture and >| programming. I prefer code examples in C or C++. >Do you want a book on Mac programming with as many mistakes, >unexplained assumptions, and outdated examples as Petzold? >Could be hard to find. :-) Not so. The Microsoft Windows System Development Toolkit I got from Microsoft Germany was incomplete and outdated right out of the box. I have learned Windows programming the hard way, using the SDK only, because at the time I started looking into Windows nothing else was available here in Germany. I got Petzolds book later and have read it with much pleasure. If you want to see a bunch of unexplained assumptions, just take a look into page 196 ff. of "The Macintosh Programmer's Introduction to Windows" of the Windows SDK and appreciate how local heap handles are cast into pointers and back in the "Shapes for Windows" sample windows code. Just the right thing to confuse a newcomer completely. >James Thiele -- microsoft!jamesth Wolfgang Strobl #include