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OPENSTEP Tools and Techniques

For the Developer Release of Rhapsody, the on-line book OPENSTEP Tools and Techniques provides task-oriented help for the development environment. This "book" consists of a collection of PDF files in the directory:

/System/Documentation/Developer/YellowBox/TasksAndConcepts/DevEnvGuide

For Yellow Box on Windows systems, you must preprend the value of NEXT_ROOT to the above path.

Important!

The procedures given in these files are based on NeXT Software's OPENSTEP Enterprise 4.2 product; they have not yet been updated for Rhapsody. However, most of the information in them is still valid and useful.

The PDF files are grouped in two subdirectories: Book and Chapters. The file in the Book directory is the entire book, and is thus useful if you want to print the book. (Be warned, however, this file is quite big.) In the Chapters directory are (obviously) the individual chapter files.

File

Chapter Number and Title

MgProj.pdf

1. Creating and Managing a Project

Compose.pdf

2. Composing the Interface

ObjAttr.pdf

3. Setting an Object's Attributes

Connect.pdf

4. Making and Managing Connections

DyPallet.pdf

5. Using Dynamic Palettes

Subclass.pdf

6. Subclassing

EditCode.pdf

7. Editing Code

FindInfo.pdf

8. Finding Information

Building.pdf

9. Building a Project

Debug.pdf

10. Basic Debugging

DynLoad.pdf

11. Dynamic Loading

Framewks.pdf

12. Creating Frameworks and Dynamic Shared Libraries

Searching the Procedures

These files are indexed for use with Acrobat Reader's Search plug-in. Before you can search the document using this plug-in, you must add the index file TLANDTCH.pdx to the list of availabe index files. To do this, you must obtain and install the plug-in, choose
Tools -> Search -> Indexes, then add the index file, which is located in the directory specified above.