June 2004
Intermediate to advanced
1056 pages
39h 58m
English
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The Developer Folder
After installing the Xcode Tools, a Developer folder is
placed at the root level of Mac OS X
(/Developer). Inside the Developer folder,
you’ll find a host of other folders that contain
applications, documentation, sample applications (including their
source code), and a suite of command-line utilities for development.
- Applications
This folder contains everything a developer needs to build an application for Mac OS X. The two main applications within this folder are Apple’s integrated development environment (IDE), consisting of:
- Interface Builder
A tool used to construct the graphical user interfaces (GUIs) for Carbon or Cocoa applications. It’s intended for use alongside Xcode, as described later.
- Xcode
Formerly known as Project Builder, Xcode is the central development environment for all Mac OS X applications.
- 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 the Xcode Tools offer, see Section 15.4.1.
All the documentation found in this folder also exists on the ADC web site, http://developer.apple.com.
- Examples
The
/Examplesfolder contains a variety of application project folders, organized by category. Some are.pbprojfiles and related Aqua interface and localization resources ...
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