Subclassing and Hooking with Visual Basic

By Stephen Teilhet
Price: $49.95 USD
£35.50 GBP

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Our look is the result of reader comments, our own experimentation, and feedback from distribution channels. Distinctive covers complement our distinctive approach to technical topics, breathing personality and life into potentially dry subjects. The animals on the cover of Subclassing and Hooking with Visual Basic are common brushtail possums (Trichosurus vulpecula). These small Australian marsupials are about one-sixth the size of a housecat. They have big ears, long whiskers, and a pointy snout tipped with a pink nose; their fur color ranges from light gray to dark brown. A brushtail possum pregnancy lasts only about 17 days, but, after birth, the single infant spends up to 5 months in his mother's pouch and then is dependent on mom for another 1 to 2 months longer.

Ordinarily, brushtail possums are tree-dwellers; their long, prehensile tails and opposable digits are ideal for grasping tree branches. They dine on leaves, fruits, and flowers and were once common all over Australia. But now they're largely absent from the interior of the country, and they can too often be found living in the eaves and attics of suburban houses, raiding trash cans for their dinners. Introduced to New Zealand in 1840, they're a major pest species in that country as well, and population control efforts include attempts to popularize possum-fur garments. Leanne Soylemez and Matt Hutchinson were the production editors for
Subclassing and Hooking with Visual Basic. Leanne Soylemez was the proofreader. Audrey Doyle was the copyeditor. Linley Dolby provided quality control. Johnna VanHoose Dinse and Brenda Miller wrote the index. Ellie Volckhausen designed the cover of this book, based on a series design by Edie Freedman. The cover image is from The Illustrated Natural History: Mammalia. Emma Colby produced the cover layout with QuarkXPress 4.1 using Adobe's ITC Garamond font. David Futato designed the interior layout based on a series design by Nancy Priest. Anne-Marie Vaduva converted the files from Microsoft Word to FrameMaker 5.5.6 using tools created by Mike Sierra. The text and heading fonts are ITC Garamond Light and Garamond Book; the code font is Constant Willison. The illustrations that appear in the book were produced by Robert Romano and Jessamyn Read using Macromedia FreeHand 9 and Adobe Photoshop 6. This colophon was written by Leanne Soylemez.

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