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From: davis@bdmrrr.bdm.com (Arthur Davis x4675)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Windows 3.0 & the Mac
Message-ID: <1990Jul10.022352.4138@bdmrrr.bdm.com>
Date: 10 Jul 90 02:23:52 GMT
Organization: BDM International
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In reference to Wolfgang Strobl's request for a Mac programming book
like Petzold's Programming Windows:

First, there really isn't one.  Petzold's book really stands alone in the
Windows world and it's a shame that the Mac doesn't have as good an
intro.  But there are good ones nevertheless.

Macintosh Programming Primer
Dave Mark & Cartwright Reed
Addison-Wesley 89
(Geared to work with Think C; this one is very good though it is
 more of a primer than Petzold's is; i.e. Petzold goes a bit farther)

A pair of books by Scott Knaster:
How to Write Macintosh Software &
Macintosh Programming Secrets
(both Addison-Wesley I think; I only have the latter one with me;
 examples are in Pascal)

If you don't mind Pascal examples, the following two volume set is good:
Macintosh Revealed, 2nd edition
Stephen Chernicoff
Hayden Press (I think)

And concerning Wolfgang's comment about DAs and Multifinder being a kludge:
It seems to me that he was saying that Windows from the outset was a 
multi-tasking multi-running-program environment; i.e. "Multifinder" was
there from the outset in Windows.  The concept of the DA was a means of
allowing for a concurrently running application before the advent of the
Multifinder.  Under the Multifinder, DAs are just treated as a kind of
special application, and the closer we get to System 7, the less useful
the DA concept becomes.  They are just other apps in effect.

Arthur Davis