Inside Macintosh: Macintosh Toolbox Essentials /

Chapter 1 - Introduction to the Macintosh Toolbox

Related System Software Features

In addition to the managers provided by the Macintosh Toolbox, you can also use other managers and system software routines. For example, you can use QuickDraw routines to draw the content of your application's windows, TextEdit (in conjunction with the Dialog Manager) to handle editable text items in dialog boxes, the File Manager to read and write files, the Process Manager and Memory Manager to control various aspects of your application's execution, and the Edition Manager and Apple Event Manager to support interapplication communication. The rest of this chapter describes some of these managers and where you can find more information about them.

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Subtopics

Drawing on the Screen

Handling Text

Managing Files

Allocating Memory and Launching Processes

Creating Publishers and Subscribers

Communicating With Other Applications