Format of a Typical Chapter
Almost all chapters in this book follow a standard structure. For example, the chapter "Image Compression Manager" contains these sections:
- "Introduction to the Image Compression Manager." This section presents a general introduction to image compression.
- "About Image Compression." This section provides an overview of the features provided by the Image Compression Manager.
- "Using the Image Compression Manager." This section describes the tasks you can accomplish using the Image Compression Manager. It describes how to use the most common functions, gives related user interface information, provides code samples, and supplies additional information.
- "Image Compression Manager Reference." This section provides a complete reference to the Image Compression Manager by describing the constants, data structures, and functions that it uses. Each function description also follows a standard format, which gives the function declaration and description of every parameter of the function. Some function descriptions also give additional descriptive information, such as assembly-language information or result codes.
- "Summary of the Image Compression Manager." This section provides the Image Compression Manager's C interface, as well as the Pascal interface, for the constants, data structures, functions, and result codes associated with the Image Compression Manager.