just getting my feet wet.... question...

[Phil Ronzone]

In article <2876 at osiris.UUCP> mjr at cthulhu.welch.jhu.edu writes:
>... and started finding things like:
>	InsertResMenu(menu,'FONT',0);
>where the second argument is supposed to be a ResType, which is a
>long! From the way it looks and works, however, it appears that that
>@!#&! abominable code is the way the Mac expects to see things ? Is
>this possible ? 

Yes, the Toolbox uses a fair number of 4 bytes character "strings", which
are dealt with as 32-bit words. The Point data structure is the same,
although, as a structure, it is acceptable nowadays to pass structures
in C.

Heritage of small ROM/RAM/assembly language days. It does mean that it is
a bit tricky porting QuickDraw to a Cray! :-) :-) :-)

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