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Preface - About This Book

Format of a Typical Chapter

Each chapter in this book follows a standard structure. Each begins with an overview, then gives programming examples, then lists all the functions in a reference section, and ends with a code summary. For example, the chapter "SoundSprocket" contains these sections:

• "About SoundSprocket." This section gives you a general overview of the SoundSprocket library and the features it provides.
• "Using SoundSprocket." This section describes the tasks you can accomplish using SoundSprocket and gives programming examples.
• "SoundSprocket Reference." This section provides a complete reference to the SoundSprocket library by describing its constants, data structures, and functions. Each function description also follows a standard format, which gives the function declaration and description of every parameter. Some function descriptions also give additional descriptive information, such as result codes.
• "Summary of SoundSprocket." This section provides SoundSprocket's C interface for its constants, data structures, functions, and result codes.