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Inside Macintosh: Macintosh Toolbox Essentials /

Preface - About This Book /

Format of a Typical Chapter

Almost all chapters in this book follow a standard structure. For example, the Event Manager chapter contains these sections:

• "Introduction to Events." This section presents a general introduction to the types of events that your application can receive.
• "About the Event Manager." This section provides an overview of the features provided by the Event Manager.
• "Using the Event Manager." This section describes the tasks you can accomplish using the Event Manager. It describes how to use the most common routines, gives related user interface information, provides code samples, and supplies additional information.
• "Event Manager Reference." This section provides a complete reference
  to the Event Manager by describing the data structures, routines, and resources it uses. 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 the Event Manager." This section provides the Pascal and
  C interfaces for the constants, data structures, routines, and result codes associated with the Event Manager. It also includes relevant assembly- language interface information.