Overview

Macintosh Common Lisp includes a set of class libraries which provide high-level access to the Macintosh user interface. The classes and methods in these libraries make it easy to create an interface for your program without worrying about the low-level details of system calls. Most importantly, the class libraries are safe. They provide crash-free access to Macintosh UI.

In the last chapter, we used two built-in dialog boxes: a message dialog and a string-query dialog. In this chapter, we'll show how to build your own dialogs and also how to put up menus. We'll also describe some ways to customize your MCL environment.

Complete details on creating windows, menus, and other UI elements are given in the MCL reference.

Gettmg Started with MCL - 19 OCT 1996

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