May 2002
Intermediate to advanced
646 pages
18h 57m
English
Content preview from Building Cocoa Applications: A Step by Step Guide
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The Finder
The Finder is a special application in Mac OS X, because it oversees the Aqua environment and allows easy access to all other applications. It never stops running while you’re logged in. The Mac OS icon represents the Finder, just as the TextEdit icon represents the TextEdit application. You can activate the Finder any time you want by clicking this icon in the Dock — it’s always available (it may be invisible, but it’s easy to find).
Although the Finder is special, it acts like other applications in most ways. It has a menu, submenus, windows, utility windows, and so on that can be manipulated just like those provided in other applications. We begin our in-depth discussion of the Finder with the Finder window.
The Finder Window
The Finder window is the primary interface
that you will use for viewing and manipulating files in the Mac OS X
(Unix) hierarchical filesystem. The Finder window supports three
different views (panes) of files: icon view,
list view, and column view.
A user can select his favored view by clicking one of the three
mutually exclusive view-control
buttons
at the left of the
Finder’s toolbar. We present the same Finder window
showing three different views of the commonly used
/Applications folder in Figure 1-20, Figure 1-21, and Figure 1-22.
Figure 1-20. Finder’s icon view for the /Applications folder
Figure 1-21. Finder’s list view for the /Applications ...
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