Yeah, it's what we all coded against in the 90's on the Macintosh. Well, except me. I was still watching Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and eating breakfast cereal, so I didn't have the capacity to be developing for such systems at the time. But, I'm doing it now!
**Macintosh Toolbox** refers to a set of API's available to C, C++ and Pascal developers, in order to ensure their applications ran as expected on a Macintosh 68k through to the PowerPC. Later revisions of the macOS utilized a Cocoa layer which replaced Macintosh Toolbox.
## What's this code?
This code is an example of the boilerplate code required to bootstrap even the most basic of programs for the Macintosh. Discussion to follow.
## What does this do?
Right now, not much:
- We start up the app, initialize, and enter an event loop.
- On receiving certain events, we handle them.
## How to use it?
This code requires Metrowerks CodeWarrior 7.1+ to run; open the `MacBoilerplate.µ` project file. If you're using a different version of Metrowerks, you may need to just junk the project file, create a new project, and include the `.c` and `.rsrc` files.
Go figure; ResEdit stores the resources in the .rsrc file, in the resource fork. Therefore, Git doesn't see it. So, I have packaged the rsrc file with ditto, and written scripts to package (`package-resources.sh`) and unpackage (`unpackage-resources.sh`) the resource file. You can also verify that the file still contains the resources by running `verify-resources.sh`.
This requires `ditto`, which should be installed on macOS, as well as DeRez, which comes part of Xcode Tools.
