Inside Macintosh: Programmer's Guide to MacApp / Part 1 - MacApp Theory and Architecture

Chapter 4 -
Launching and Terminating
an Application

This chapter provides a detailed description of what happens when a MacApp application is launched and when it is terminated.

Before reading this chapter, you should read Chapter 2, "Basic Operations." You may also want to refer to Chapter 3, "Core Technologies," for additional information on failure handling, dynamic memory allocation, and segmentation of 68K applications.

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Chapter Contents

Overview

Initializing MacApp's Core Code

InitUMacApp_Step1

UniversalStartup

Checking the Processor

Initializing the Macintosh Toolbox

Performing Preliminary Memory Initialization

Validating the Machine Configuration

Installing a Top-Level Failure Handler

InitUMacApp_Step3

Performing Additional Required Initialization

Initializing Additional MacApp Units

Creating and Initializing the Application Object

Calling Run to Put MacApp in Control

Launching the Clipboard

Terminating the Application