Using the Mac OS 8.5 Control Manager

Your program can use the Control Manager to create and manage controls, onscreen objects that the user can manipulate with the mouse. By manipulating controls, the user can take an immediate action or change settings to modify a future action.

This document describes the Control Manager application programming interface (API) introduced with Mac OS 8.5 and Appearance Manager 1.1. Note that pre-existing Control Manager functions, types, and constants are not discussed in this document. For a description of the Mac OS 8 Control Manager API, see Mac OS 8 Control Manager Reference . For descriptions of the pre-Mac OS 8 Control Manager API, see Inside Macintosh: Macintosh Toolbox Essentials .

See the following sections for discussions of some programming topics for the Mac OS 8.5 Control Manager.