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• create graphic images in black and white, grayscale, and color
• optimize your application to draw on various screens
• prepare graphic images offscreen to speed up onscreen drawing
• store graphic images that can be shared by other applications
• manage the cursor for selections made with the mouse
• print on any variety of Macintosh printer

Inside Macintosh: Macintosh Toolbox Essentials (Vol. 1 & 2) - 912 pp
Inside Macintosh: Macintosh Toolbox Essentials describes how to implement essential user interface components in your Macintosh application. The Macintosh Toolbox is at the heart of the Macintosh.This book explains how to

• create menus
• create windows, dialog boxes, and alert boxes
• create controls such as buttons and scroll bars
• create icons for your application and its documents
• respond to user actions

Inside Macintosh: Text (Vol. 1 & 2) 1114 pp
Inside Macintosh: Text shows how your application can perform all kinds of text handling, from simple character display to complex, multi-language text processing. This book provides a brief introduction to the unique Macintosh approach to text handling, and shows how you can

• draw characters, strings, and lines of text
• work with fonts in any size, style, and language
• use TextEdit, a simple multi-language text editor
• use utility routines to format numbers, dates, and times
• convert formats among different countries or regions
• design your application to handle text in any language
• provide text input in Asian languages such as Japanese
  

Inside Macintosh: More Macintosh Toolbox - 766 pp

Inside Macintosh: More Macintosh Toolbox explains important features of the Macintosh Toolbox that enhance the usability
of your application. This book discusses how you can

• support copy and paste
• provide online assistance for users through Balloon Help
• create scrolling lists in dialog boxes and windows
• draw and manipulate icons in windows
• create and use components
• translate documents from one format to another
• create control panels
• retrieve information from the desktop database