Inside Macintosh: OpenDoc Programmer's Guide /

Preface - About This Book

OpenDoc is a set of shared libraries that you can use to build editors and viewers for compound documents, as well as other component software. This book, the OpenDoc Programmer's Guide for the Mac OS, describes how to use those libraries to develop OpenDoc part editors for the Mac OS platform on Macintosh and Mac-compatible computers.

This book is a companion to the OpenDoc Class Reference for the Mac OS, which provides reference documentation to the classes, methods, types, constants, and exceptions defined by OpenDoc. The Programmer's Guide provides an architectural overview, synthesizes design concepts, and gives specific programming recommendations to illuminate and make more accessible the large amount of information documented in the Class Reference. The OpenDoc Class Reference for the Mac OS is included on the CD-ROM that accompanies this book.

This book does not provide code samples. For detailed tutorial instructions and code listings taken from functioning Mac OS part editors, see the OpenDoc Cookbook for the Mac OS. Code samples from the OpenDoc Cookbook for the Mac OS and from other sources are included on the CD-ROM that accompanies this book.

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