About the Appearance Manager

The Appearance Manager coordinates the look of standard Mac OS human interface elements and helps you adapt your custom interface elements to the coordinated systemwide look, that is, to be theme-compliant.

This chapter describes the Appearance Manager, through version 1.1, in the following sections:

The Appearance Control Panel discusses appearances, themes, and the various other settings that the Appearance control panel affects.
A Theme-Compliant User Interface discusses the parts of the Mac OS user interface that are affected by the Appearance Manager.
Definition Function Mapping and Program Registration discusses how the Appearance Manager maps standard pre-Appearance Manager definition functions to their theme-compliant equivalents.
Appearance Manager Versions discusses the availability of the Appearance Manager under various versions of the Mac OS.
Appearance Manager Memory Requirements discusses the impact of the Appearance Manager on your program's memory usage.