January 2003
Intermediate to advanced
832 pages
32h 40m
English
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The Developer Folder
The /Developer
folder contains the following
subfolders:
- Applications
Aqua applications for development, as detailed further in the next section.
- Documentation
This folder holds an immense amount of system documentation in HTML and PDF format, covering the entirety of Mac OS X from a developer’s point of view. Topics range from general descriptions of system functionality, to highly specific reference manuals, to the Cocoa and Carbon programming APIs. For more about the documentation that the Developer Tools offer, see Section 15.4.1.
All the documentation found in this folder also exists on Apple’s developer web site, http://developer.apple.com.
- Examples
The
/Examplesfolder contains a wide variety of application project folders, organized by category. Some are.pbprojfiles and related Aqua interface and localization resources all ready for opening in Project Builder, while others are simple shell scripts or AppleScripts that demonstrate various concepts.The
/Examples/Web Servicesfolder, for example, contains a source to an Aqua application called XMethodsInspector , a couple of AppleScripts (embedded in shell scripts), and a couple of C++ source files. All show different ways of invoking SOAP and XML-RPC web services from your software.- Headers
This folder contains
FlatCarbonflat header files, which help developers port applications from Mac OS 9 (which had no concept of Frameworks—see Section 15.7.1, later in this chapter, for the difference). The ...
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