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To, well, further add to the research :) , I digged out and skimmed through all of my Mac related material, and here's the result: Claris Works manual (Swedish, 1990): Macromedia Director 3.0 manual (English, 1991): Macintosh Performa manual (Swedish, 1992): PC Exchange manual...

Hej ;) Interesting question :) I only remember seeing the name Macintosh HD (Mac user since circa 1991) Here's a photo of a product brochure from 1992 that I have. Apparently PowerBook HD was also an option :) Unfortunately, I don't have anything older than that so I'm unable to answer...

After searching for info about how to access and control the backlight for probably the fifteenth time, the Macintosh Portable development note suddenly appeared among the search results. Clicked it – and found the documentation for the backlight driver! I don’t own a Portable, so it never...

Still useful for any future readers to have a reply to an unanswered question, I think :) Besides, everything around here is old ;-)

Late to the party here, but there's an app called WaveWindow by Rustle Laidman that will display the waveform of any audio received through the computer's microphone port (surprisingly, I see now the software is still available for current macs...

Thanks! That's interesting. Makes sense. Do other compilers have similar ways of doing this, and is this way of doing it present also in modern systems? Just curios :) Do you think you will find a moment to explain how to build the popup menu directly and how to fix the code in the example...

Anyone else who have any information about this? Besides the backlight, reading the current system voltage, charging status and processor speed setting would also be interesting. Apart from this old forum post I haven't been able to find any information online or in Apple's documentation...

By the way, I haven't come across this syntax before:    pascal OSErr SetDialogDefaultItem(DialogPtr theDialog, short newItem)        = { 0x303C, 0x0304, 0xAA68 }; Is this standard C syntax or something specific for the Mac or Think C? I assume the values inside the curly braces are...

In the meantime, does anyone here have any ideas about why the texts don't fit in the popups like they do in the book? Book: My version: OS 9:

Thank you! There's no rush, so take your time.

A second question:   One of the first small goals of my programming efforts has been to design a control strip module (or just an ordinary an app at this point, since I'm not quite there yet) that can display and maybe also change the current brightness setting for the backlight on my...

Hello again, Regarding your first point; will building the menu on the fly replace both the DITL item and the MENU resource, or just the MENU resource? Would you mind showing how this is done in a bit more detail? Also, if I were to just correct the code in the example from the book so that it...

Thank you, that's very, very helpful! I'll go through and digest it all tomorrow. What better way to learn than to correct and improve the learning material! :)  

Interesting! I wasn't aware of that. I feel I have to check it out, just to compare it and see what it looks like. According to freepascal.org the last version of Think Pascal is about as old as Think C 5: "THINK Pascal was a Pascal language compiler for 68K-based Mac computers. […] The last...

Haha :D  Okay, I get your point :D Syntax coloring is also a quite nice invention, I feel :) Although it wouldn't help much on my PB 170 :D

Is there any other book you could recommend over this one? Or is it just a matter of taking in as much as possible, gaining experience and then slowly begin to make your own judgments and decisions? :)

It's pretty much all I know at this point, although I've had some glances at Xcode and Visual Studio to not be entirely stuck in the past :D   Why nasty, by the way? Apart from the apparent lack of everything modern, that is :)  

Thank you both very much for taking your time. I'm learning as I go along here! Yeah, I noticed that too. I assumed it was just to show different ways to accomplish the same thing. Strange – and a bit disappointing… I had the impression that Dave Mark's programming books were respected, and...

Disabling the menu in ResEdit fixed the menu's behavior. Apparently something they missed in the otherwise fairly detailed instructions in the book. (I'm just blindly following instructions here :) ) All of the three time constants correspond to the right item numbers, so that's probably not...

Certainly! Thank you for helping out!