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Re: AS and Gestalt
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Re: AS and Gestalt


  • Subject: Re: AS and Gestalt
  • From: SeaSoft Systems <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2000 17:36:41 -0800

Christopher Nebel wrote:


snip

So, Gestalt documentation: for starters, read
<http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/mac/OSUtilities/OSUtilities-13.html> for a
list of constants and what the responses are. Unfortunately, that page has two
problems: first, it only gives you the C/Pascal constant names, not the
four-character codes you need for "computer", and second, it only lists the
older selectors.

You can cure the first problem by reading
<http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/mac/OSUtilities/OSUtilities-27.html> -- it
has the same information as the first, but is less readable. To cure the
second, you'll need a copy of Gestalt.h. It's included with the Carbon SDK
<ftp://ftp.apple.com/developer/Development_Kits/CarbonLib_1.0.4_SDK.sit.hqx>,
but that's about a 7MB download, so I've put a copy of Gestalt.h on my iDisk
<http://hompage.mac.com/c.nebel> -- it's a relatively svelte 88K.


This is not the first time that a very useful resource was posted by a list contributor to an iDisk address.

Sadly, there are a lot of luddites out here, like me, who are still laboring with OS 8.6 or earlier.

So, is there any way to get to an iDisk resource such as Chris' <http://hompage.mac.com/c.nebel> using, for example, a conventional web address? Like http://www.apple.com/.../idisk/c.nebel or somesuch? (If not, there oughtta be... :-)


Richard Hartman


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