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#Macintosh Toolbox C Boilerplate
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## What is a Macintosh Toolbox?
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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!
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**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.
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## What's this code?
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This code is an example of the boilerplate code required to bootstrap even the most basic of programs for the Macintosh. Discussion to follow.
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## What does this do?
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Right now, not much:
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- We start up the app, initialize, and enter an event loop.
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- On receiving certain events, we handle them.
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## How to use it?
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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.
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## TODO
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Some things I'm going to be adding (because it's not actually complete, yet, and I don't know how ot do these things):
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- Menus
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- Controls
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- File System access
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- Alerts
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- Buttons and Button handlers
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- Keyboard Shortcuts
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- Network access
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## Who to blame
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Yeah, I'm sorry. (c) 2019 James Robert Perih <<james@hotdang.ca>>
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