MacScripter's Magazine is a visual tutorial for Applescript. Its multimedia format allows everybody to start with a visually attractive, easy to follow, hands-on introduction to AppleScript. Contents of Issue 1: -Emptying the trash -make a new folder -moving files -variables -c…

I have little experience in C and was grateful for the posting, in C, of speech manager routine calls. It gave me an opportunity to make a simple exercise to value learning C in the future by the book. In the following, I paste my C to pascal code translation of a submission of a…

This file should replace "dev/src/mac-starter-c.hqx" in info-mac. I have heard from several people who had trouble using MacStarter with THINK C 6.0. The problems seem to be caused by stricter type-checking of pointer types in version 6.0. The error messages will go away if you …

-- _13931840==_ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MacStarter_Pascal: A Macintosh application shell for writing small-to-moderate programs with THINK Pascal 4.0, AND including "expression.p", which provides facilities for parsing and evaluating mathematical expre…

-- _6967288==_ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Enclosed is the entire Mac port of "wt", a 3D public domain engine. This archive contains EVERYTHING relating to 0.04 on the home FTP site -- the documentation (what there is), the source code (in C), and the fat bi…

MacZoop represents one of the most straightforward and most rewarding ways to program the Macintosh. With very little effort, you can be right up to speed developing your next great Mac application, without all that tedious mucking about worrying about the event loop and all the …

Macintosh Application Development Essentials (MADE for short) is a tiny package of C/C++ code which provides all the lowest-level needs for a Macintosh application. It contains basic routines for dealing with errors, memory, menus, events, linked lists, AppleEvents and Drag-and-D…

mailcheck / by Aaron Wohl N3LIW / Public Domain / mail n3liw+@cmu.edu Home ftp site akutaktak.andrew.cmu.edu [128.2.35.1] /aw0g/mailcheck* Available from compuserve in the ham radio sig/packet section Mailcheck is an Init/cdev/driver to check for mail in a server (unix) mailbox …

MakeAlias takes two parameters, the full pathname of the original file, and the pathname of the alias file to be created. This external is for creating aliases of files on the same volume as the alias. I will be writing one which will create aliases of files on remote volumes. C…

The latest version of the guide for those who are interested in doing Mac development, but are for all intents and purposed newbies. It was originally intended for those hardy folk who were interested in writing games, but has evolved (devolved?) into a general survey of mainstre…

MakePerlDroplet (mpd.hqx) is an AppleScript droplet that directs MacPerl to check the syntax of a Perl script and compile the script as a droplet. If there are syntax errors, they will be displayed in the "MacPerl" window and the script will not be compiled. Freeware; see docume…

mallocfree is meant to be used by programmers instead of the usual ANSI memory manager. It includes malloc, free, realloc, calloc, and as additional goodies getallocsize (works like _GetPtrSize/_GetHandleSize on a mallocated block; the ANSI libraries miss this routine) and ffcall…

Sample source code generated from the Marksman 3.0 code generator for a sample prototype. See also the MarksmanEditorDemo-30 archive. This code is for use with Metrowerks DR1 C++ compiler. ITMAKERS@Applelink.apple.com

Sample source code generated from the Marksman 3.0 code generator for a sample prototype. See also the MarksmanEditorDemo-30 archive. This code is for use with Think Pascal compiler. ITMAKERS@Applelink.apple.com

These are some scripts for AppleScript that I wrote. They include: Replace in text editor Dial Number Number Lines Get Item Info I hope you enjoy them!

Gift Givers! This is source for Think C 5.0.4 which combines some routines found in the original PD source for Maxwell-DA and a microShell made from the TC demo "Bullseye." All I did was get this to run in the shell. More work needs to be done one it, but it stands as a demo fo…

Here's MBarClock's source! You can use all or part of it in your application. If you made something, please send me a copy. Enjoy, Masafumi Ueda

orrow.stanford.edu!stanford.edu!agate!ucbvax!hplabs!sdd.hp.com!elroy.j pl.nasa.gov!usc!davidp From: davidp@calvin.usc.edu (David Peterson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer Subject: Just for you, an early Christmas present Message-Id: Date: 2 Dec 92 20:17:32 GMT Reply-To: davi…

Source code is provided for the following nShell(tm) commands: ask, battery, beep, cat, chattr, cp, date, dec, delay, df, du, echo, eq, find, fss, gestalt, grep, head, hello, inc, launch, ls, man, match, mem, mkdir, mv, notify, odoc, ps, read, rm, sfget, sfput, shift, tail, unloc…

Note: If you're a registered owner of 3.0, you can upgrade instantly and for free. Instructions are in the SimpleText file. This is the latest upgrade to the popular MegaWindow external for HyperCard. It requires System 7 and HC 2.1 or higher. (Some features of the two stacks re…

An external function for Apple HyperCard 2.x It returnes the height of the menubar (given in pixels). This XFCN is accelerated for PowerPC (only for HyperCard >= 2.3). Also a version for 68K Machines is included. For more information use: E-Mail: matthias.kahlert@rz.fh-regensbu…

An external function for Apple HyperCard 2.x It tells you weather the menubar is visible or hidden. This XFCN is accelerated for PowerPC (only for HyperCard >= 2.3). Also a version for 68K Machines is included. For more information use: E-Mail: matthias.kahlert@rz.fh-regensburg…

Please replace the previous copy of Menu Commands with this version. some people had complained about the script asking them for an app which they did not have. this version is saved as text, not complied, so that should not be a problem now. feel free to email any additional pro…

Menu Fixer is a programmer's tool which will examine all the MENU resources in a file and report (and optionally fix) discrepancies between the MENU resource ID and the menu's internal menu ID. If your menus are showing up scrambled or not showing up at all, try this first! Menu…

An external command for Apple HyperCard 2.x It let's you change the number of times a menuitem is flashing when you select it. This XCMD is accelerated for PowerPC (only for HyperCard >= 2.3). Also a version for 68K Machines is included. For more information use: E-Mail: matthi…

For the dev/src area This is a little application I wrote to test a user interface idea: that the menu bar should slide when you switch applications. Source code (THINK Pascal) and binary (it's very small) included. Please try it and let me know what you think.

Mesa is a 3-D graphics library with an API which is very similar to that of OpenGL*, with full source code. It allows people without OpenGL to write and use OpenGL-style applications. It is binary compatible with Conix's OpenGL for MacOS. A GLUT implementation is also included. …

The Message Box Rebounder is a small tool which simply revitalizes the HyperCard Player's message box. In essence, it "bounces" the contents of the message box back up the passing path in a form the Player will directly execute instead of beeping at. The Rebounder automatically d…

METAL v1.7a is a 100% free extended BASIC language metacompiler. This is the newest version as of 03/31/2001. Visit for more information on METAL. One of the fastest BASICs around, METAL (Meta Language) has a rich command library that features: - tight QuickTime(TM) integration…

I've made this utility to remove uneeded files from CodeWarrior projects. It removes ".SYM", ".xSYM", ".cat", ".dbg" files, precompiled headers and removes binaries from the projects, ie all the files you dont need when you're done with a project. Hope you like it. Fat binary S…

To: macgifts@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Keywords is a simple program to convert the colored keyword list from a MetroWerks CW5 project to a text file and to turn a text file into a MW CW5 keyword list. This program is email-ware: send me an email if you use it. I have also included …

This is a very simple sprite animation demo, written as a first intro to GWorlds and offscreen drawing. Think or Metrowerks Pascal. /Ingemar Ragnemalm