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Macintosh Programming Snippets

This page introduces some snippets or small samples of Macintosh Programming. All codes are written in C/C++. You can use them freely.

Topics

• How to colorize menu items?

  We can use 'mctb' resources to colorize menu items statically. But is there any way to do at runtime?
  I'll tell how to do it.

• Do you draw the default button outline properly?

  Haven't you met applications that use the button like this?

  

  I feel this is not beautiful.
  The better one is something like this.

  

  There is few difference between these two buttons. However, I cannot trust the programmer who uses the former buttons. I'd rather trust the programmer that forgets DisposeHandle.