#Macintosh Toolbox C Boilerplate

What is a Macintosh Toolbox?

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.

TODO

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):

• Menus
• Controls
• File System access
• Alerts
• Buttons and Button handlers
• Keyboard Shortcuts
• Network access

Who to blame

Yeah, I'm sorry. (c) 2019 James Robert Perih <james@hotdang.ca>