Reference • Table of Contents • The Mops Manual

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Chapter 2 Classes and Objects	Planning your subclasses
	The class hierarchy
	Choosing between ivars and objects
	When to use ivars
	Defining a class
	Ivars	For Advanced Mops Programmers Ivars as Toolbox data structures How ivars are linked Instance Variable Fields Potential ivar errors
	Methods	Special words for primitive methods ^BASE and ^ELEM
Chapter 3 Object Creation and Message Syntax	Object declarations vs. creation methods	Declaration instantiation Special-case TEMP declarations Creation-method instantiation The Mops Toolbox classes Message syntax Advanced Message syntax
Chapter 4 More About Objects	Binding	Early binding Late binding Late binding and Toolbox calls Early vs. late binding When to use late binding
	References	Prefix operator -> Prefix operator new> Prefix operator release>
	Dynamic (heap-based) objects
	More ways of early binding	Declared References Object pointers class_as>
	Public and static ivars
Chapter 5 Memory Organization	The Mops Dictionary
	The kernel or nucleus
	The heap
	Stacks
	Addresses-relocatable and absolute
	Handles and pointers
Chapter 6 Strings	String types
	String literals and constants
	Other string techniques
Chapter 7 Calling the Toolbox	SYSCALL and the Universal Headers
	Time and space
	Toolbox data types
	Procedure and function calls
	Accessing system constants
	Callback routines
Chapter 8 Modules	Module guidelines
	How to use modules
Chapter 9 Implementing an application	Structure of a typical application
	Bringing objects to life
	Waiting for events
	Apple events
	Compiling your source	Switching between compiler and editor Saving compiled programs Other compiling tips
	Debugging your code	Evaluating error messages System errors
	Your application's icons
Chapter 10 PowerMops	Introduction
	Separate code and data
	No separate nucleus and dictionary
	Under the hood
	Toolbox calls
	Source filename conventions and loading order
	Performance
	Install
	Shared libraries	Calling a shared library Generating a shared library
Chapter 11 Coding V. 5.1 and Later	Introduction
	Carbon
	Changed Classes	Window Carbon Changes
Chapter 12 Miscellaneous Topics	ANSI standard
	Local sections and temporary objects
	Case statements
	Recursion and forward referencing
	Using resources in Mops	Toolbox resources Defining and using resources
	Clearing nested stacks—Become
	System vectors
	Defining and compiling words
	Error handling
	Assertions
	Inline definitions
Chapter 13 Utility Modules	The Alert box
	The Decompiler and Debugger
	The Profiler
	Runtime initialization
Chapter 14 Technical Section	Runtime environment-68k
	Runtime environment-PowerPC
	Dictionary header format
	Compilation and optimization
	Object format
	68k CODE resources
	Relocatable address format
	Improving the performance of late binding	BIND_WITH (68k Mops only) Late bind cache (PowerMops only)
	Implementation of references	Garbage collection

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