Mac Starter C

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 turn off the "Check Pointer Types" option in the options box for THINK C (under the Edit Menu), but there turn out to be a few actual errors (not just type problems) that should be corrected. So, I have updated MacStarter to work with THINK C 6.0, as well as with version 5.0, and corrected known errors. David Eck eck@hws.bitnet February 1, 1994 MacStarter is an application shell for writing quick, small programs in THINK C (5.0 or 6.0). If you are already a Mac programmer, you probably have written your own such shell. However, I am posting this to info-mac because: -- it might be useful for a C programmer who wants to get started writing programs with Mac interfaces without facing the darker parts of Inside Macintosh or the THINK Class library -- it uses a window class to provide the basic functionality of windows (This provides a concrete example of how objects can be used in THINK C. It is also a neat way of localizing the changes you need to make in the shell to produce a working program.) -- I have actually put in the time to write fairly detailed comments explaining how to use the shell