Summary
This chapter explains the basic integration of help books into Cocoa applications. Help books are viewed with Apple’s Help Viewer application. The MiscHelpManager class wraps Carbon procedural APIs to access sophisticated features of Help Viewer from Cocoa applications. Simple ToolTips set within Interface Builder and more complex, context position–dependent ToolTips are shown in the ToolTipExample example application.
The next chapter describes the integration of Apple’s multimedia technologies with Cocoa applications. Just like with Apple’s application help features, basic multimedia support can be added to Cocoa applications with little or no code. Sophisticated use of multimedia requires the use of procedural APIs. Chapter 21, “Multimedia,” ...
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