Mac OS 8 Window Manager Reference

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The Window Manager defines a set of standard windows and provides functions for creating, displaying, and managing their drawing and behavior. Applications use windows for most communication with the user, from discrete interactions such as presenting and acknowledging alert boxes to open-ended interactions such as creating and editing documents. A window can be any size or shape, and the user can display any number of windows, within the limits of available memory, on the screen at once.

Portions of the Window Manager application programming interface (API) are new, changed, or not recommended with Mac OS 8 or Appearance Manager 1.0. See the following sections for descriptions of the changes to the Window Manager:

For descriptions of the parts of the Window Manager API that are unaffected by Mac OS 8 or Appearance Manager 1.0, see Inside Macintosh: Macintosh Toolbox Essentials. For a description of the Mac OS 8.5 Window Manager API, see Mac OS 8.5 Window Manager Reference.

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