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Preface - About This Book

Format of a Typical Chapter

Almost all chapters in this book follow a standard structure. For example, the chapter "Creating and Sending Apple Events" contains these sections:

• "Creating an Apple Event" and "Sending an Apple Event." These sections describe how your application can create and send Apple events. They describe the Apple Event Manager routines that you can use to accomplish these tasks, give related user interface information, and provide code samples and additional information.
• "Reference to Creating and Sending Apple Events." This section provides a complete reference to the Apple Event Manager routines you can use to create and send Apple events. Each routine description also follows a standard format, which presents the routine declaration followed by a description of every parameter of the routine. Some routine descriptions also give additional descriptive information, such as assembly-language information or result codes.
• "Summary of Creating and Sending Apple Events." This section provides the Pascal and C interfaces for the constants, data structures, routines, and result codes associated with the Apple Event Manager routines for creating and sending Apple events. It also includes relevant assembly-language interface information.