Structure of This Book(OD Cookbook)

Inside Macintosh: OpenDoc Cookbook /: Preface - About This Book

Structure of This Book
Following this preface, this book includes a brief chapter describing the MPW-based development environment as configured to compile the OpenDoc code samples. The next chapter is a tutorial presentation of SamplePart, a sample part editor developed by the OpenDoc engineering team for the Mac OS. The SamplePart tutorial is the largest portion of the book. The next chapter contains descriptions of other code samples included with OpenDoc for the Mac OS, relating those samples to certain concepts of OpenDoc not covered in the SamplePart tutorial. Last, this book presents two appendixes: one describes a set of utility classes, functions, and macros which, although unsupported, are included with OpenDoc for the Mac OS; the other appendix presents an introduction to the System Object Model(TM) (SOM(TM)) technology on which OpenDoc is built, described in terms of the SOM interface of SamplePart.
Most of the methods described in this book include an introductory paragraph or two, followed by a step-by-step presentation of the method's algorithm, followed by a listing of the implementation source code. Some descriptions, especially those for brief or obvious methods, omit the step-by-step presentation.