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- “INIT - CDEV” is a sample that shows how a CDEV can communicate with an INIT.
- It is a System 7.0 sample, as it uses the PPCToolbox. It also uses the
- FindFolder routine to show how to read and write a preferences file, and the
- stand-alone globals techniques described in Technote #256.
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- This sample demonstrates the following:
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- • How to write an INIT that can stay resident.
- • How to write a Control Panel Device with extended error reporting
- • How to patch a trap
- • How to use the FindFolder routine for managing preferences
- • How to do quick and dirty PPCToolbox communications
- • How to use global variables in standalone code
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- The INIT is just a simple "do nothing" INIT. It patches into SystemTask so
- that it can beep a certain number of times at regular intervals. At startup
- time, it reads a preferences file to find out how many times it should beep,
- and how often. If there isn't a preferences file, or we are running under
- 6.0.x and don't have the luxery of the FindFolder routine, we use the
- hard-wired setting of beeping 3 times every minute. However, the INIT doesn't
- really do anything 7.0-ish, so it still installs at startup even if you are
- running under 6.0.x. It just won't communicate with the CDEV.
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- The CDEV can be used to change these settings. This CDEV runs under 7.0 only;
- it won't show up under 6.0.x. Also, it checks to see if the INIT was installed
- at startup time. If not, then it puts up an alert saying that it won't run
- unless the INIT is installed. There's no real good reason for doing this
- (i.e., you should be able to change the preferences file for the next time you
- reboot). But it shows how you can do your own error reporting in a CDEV.
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- The CDEV is based on the EditText CDEV sample. It's been modified slightly to
- communicate with the INIT. When it's brought up, you are presented with two
- edit text boxes. The first lets you set the number of times you beep. The
- second lets you set the interval in seconds. Nothing happens until you close
- the CDEV. When you do that, the CDEV uses the PPCToolbox to ask the INIT for a
- pointer to a public variables space. Once it has that pointer, it moves the
- new values into that space. The INIT then makes its decisions based on the new
- settings.
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