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Inside Macintosh : AOCE Application Interfaces

Name: Inside Macintosh : AOCE Application Interfaces
Author: Inc. Staff Apple Computers
ISBN: 9780201408485

by Inc. Staff Apple Computers

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Overview

sophisticated and diverse Mac OS that developers work with today. Apple is meticulous in its documentation of the Mac OS, and the result is the Inside Macintosh series.

Apple and A-W make this documentation available to you in a variety of formats:

Individual bound books (paper! how novel!)
Electronic full text in DocViewer format: Inside Mac CD-ROM
Electronic quick reference: Macintosh Programmer's Toolbox Assistant

The complete list of 27 titles is pretty daunting, but take heart. You can think of Inside Mac topics in two groups: those that are common to all Macs, and those that are specific to your application.

The core technology topics:

The Macintosh Toolbox
Interapplication Communication
Text
Imaging with QuickDraw
Memory, Processes, Files, Operating System Utilities, Devices

Specialized technology topics:

QuickTime
PowerPC System Software, PowerPC Numerics
Sound
Networking
AOCE
QuickDraw GX

You should have a good grasp of the core topics, then pick and choose which specialized topics are for you among the current titles in the Inside Macintosh series.

The official descriptions of the Apple Open Collaboration Environment (AOCE), a new operating-system extension that allows Macintosh applications to exchange mail, messages, catalog and authentication services, and digital signatures.