All Functions and Procedures

File Manager Reference 2-258

Display error number, message, and help strings.

Defined in Inside Macintosh Chapter 6, QuickDraw, section QuickDraw Routines I-172 "DrawChar places the given character to the right of the pen location, with the left end of its base line at the pen's location, and advaaces the pen accordingly.

returns the number of bytes in the file.

replace, but not precisely mimic, Turbo's built-in function

Inside Macintosh, I-474:

GetCursor returns a handle to the cursor having the given resource ID, reading
it from the resource file if necessary. It calls the Resource Manager function
GetResource('CURS',cursorID). If the resource can't be read, GetCursor returns NIL.

File Manager Reference 2-253

File Manager Reference 2-258

purpose initialize everything for the program NB Think Pascal sets up toolbox managers, flushes event queue, and calls MoreMasters 10x This routine contains the following code, which Dawkins later commented on (it initializes the RootGod data structure, which is used extensively in Pedigree.)

		RootGod := GodHandle(NewHandle(SizeOf(God)));
		IF MemError <> noErr THEN
			ExitToShell;
		RootGodˆˆ.Adam := NIL;
		RootGodˆˆ.NextGod := NIL;
		RootGodˆˆ.PreviousGod := NIL;

Display message for this standard IOResult error number

Acts like Pascal's eof() function, but in addition you can specify how close to the end of the file you are allowed to be (takes care of truncated files.

File Manager Reference 2-254

File Manager Reference 2-254

File Manager Reference 2-254

File Manager Reference 2-254

File Manager Reference 2-254

Inside Macintosh I-133

File Manager Reference 2-253

Show genebox number j (1-based) based on the genes of the supplied person.

v1.1 The original procedure would fail if you double click on a colour biomorph file, because those files have the same creator signiture but different file formats.

TrapAvailable - Check whether a certain trap exists on this machine.