Re: MenuKey and TaskMaster

[David.Empson@bbs.actrix.gen.nz]

In article <C1D7K5.J6y@CAM.ORG> vandry@CAM.ORG (Phillip Vandry) writes:
> mills@MAX.EE.LSU.EDU (John Mills) writes:
> 
> >Ref. Vol. 1?!? What version of GS/OS are you writing it for? If it's 5.04 and
> >later, Ref. Vol. 3 makes lots of corrections and enhancments. You might try
> >looking into Programmers Ref. for System 6 also. :)
> 
> Vol 1/2 and Sys6Ref will do for now until I get get a copy of Vol 3. I did
> find at least two errors in Vol 1/2 just while doing this one project, so
> there muts be quite a few.

Volume 3 contains a lot of corrections to both volumes 1 and 2.  In
addition, find Apple IIgs Technical Note #24, which includes
corrections to all three volumes.

Re MenuKey: TB Rev Vol 1 is wrong.  The correction (in volume 3)
indicates that MenuKey expects a full task record, and the menu/item
number are returned in taskData, not eventWhen.

> Volume 3 is not as thick and expensive, right?

Sorry?  Volume 3 has about the same number of pages as volumes 1 and 2
put together.  It is taller than the other two, but uses thinner
paper, so is about the same thickness.  Something like 1200 pages in
total.

Volume 3 covers changes in System 3.2 through 5.0.2, and is pretty
essential if you want to use System 6 to its fullest extent.

The new toolsets documented in it are: Audio Compression/Expansion,
MIDI Tools, Note Sequencer, Note Synthesizer, Resource Manager and
TextEdit.  There is a lot of information about using resources with
other toolsets (in particular the Control, Menu and Window manager).
-- 
David Empson

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