A gross inaccuracy makes an appearance on our back cover for the second month in a row: The Speech Recognition Manager went through three versions while the CD was being prepared, and the version we ended up with is 1.5b6. The eagerly-awaited System 7.5 Update 2.0, which was too late for April's disc, arrives this month, along with several localizations of System 7.5.3 for PCI Macs. Thanks to several of your requests (and to moderator Francois Pottier) i have restored the C.S.M.P. Digests, which will be updated on succeeding Tool Chest editions. And, in addition to updates to the Disk I/O Performance Tools and new versions of HyperCard Player and Macintosh CD-ROM Setup, here is the rest of this month's new and revised stuff.
Apple Guide 2.0.2 Update: This folder contains the runtime for Apple Guide 2.0.2, an update to Apple Guide 2.0. There have been two minor bug fixes; see the document "Apple Guide 2.0.2 Dev Rel Notes" for details.
C.S.M.P. Digests: This digest is a collection of article threads from the internet newsgroups comp.sys.mac.programmer.*. It is designed for people who read c.s.m.p. semi- regularly and want an archive of the discussions. The Comp.Sys.Mac.Programmer Digest is moderated by Francois Pottier (pottier@clipper.ens.fr). Note: This is NOT AN APPLE PRODUCT. It is provided on an AS-IS basis. Apple is not responsible for any problems you may encounter in its use.
Display Manager SDK v1.1: This development kit has all the information you will need to begin taking advantage of the Display Manger API. The Display Manager 1.0 API was first introduced with the PowerMacs in System 7.1.2 and subsequently shipped in 7.5 and 7.5.1. The Display Manager 2.0 is included in post 7.5.1 systems and is also available as a system extension which is backward compatible to System 7.1. Licensing information for the Display Manager extension is included to make it as easy as possible for developers to create and ship Display Manager aware applications.
Drive Utilities v1.1: This package contains Disk First Aid v7.2.2, a disk repair utility, and Drive Setup v1.0.4, a program that lets you partition, initialize, and update fixed and removable disks.
PartMaker 4.3: DTS sample code to illustrate a software project delivery tool. This tool is based on AppsToGo (which is also DTS sample code). It is not technology specific. The code base can work with Symantec, MetroWerks and MPW. This tool permits ease of globally renaming project source files, resources, and resource types. Software projects can be easily archived using the tool's import facility. New software projects which compile and link correctly the very first time can be achieved by simply pressing a single button.
Snippets - Devices - Disable Power Off Key: Extension demonstrating how to disable power key for turning off machine.
Snippets - Files - CustomGet unresolved alias: This sample demonstrates how to let the user choose an alias file from an "open" dialog. The basic idea is to intercept the pseudo-item 'sfHookOpenAlias' in a CustomGetFile hook function and transform it into 'getOpen'. This causes the dialog to behave as if the user had clicked the open button. Also, we intercept the item number of a check box we have added to the dialog item template in order to allow the user to choose whether to resolve aliases. Finally, when CustomGetFile returns, we call DebugStr to let the user (you, the programmer, not end users -- they'll just see a crash) know what happened.
Snippets - Processes - Launch Me: This code shows how to get one application to launch another application when there is not enough memory for both applications to be open at the same time. It will not fragment memory like having a second application would.
Snippets - Sound - Sound Input: SoundInputSample demonstrates the right way to set up the Sound Input Driver to record sound. In the past, developers have assumed that the state of Sound Input was always the same. Newer Macintoshes, especially the PowerPC models, may have different settings so it is important to setup Sound Input correctly each time you use it.
Snippets - Sound - SoundConvert: SoundConvert demonstrates some of the new features in Sound Manager 3.2. The application allows you to read AIFF and AIFC sound files and convert them to any combination of sample rate, sample size, number of channels and format/compression type.
Snippets - Testing & Debugging - Fill Memory: This is a debugging aid. It fills its memory partition and verifies that it does not get changed. This allows you verify that your application does not write into the memory space of other applications.
Snippets - Text - strlist: A string list library. See "strlist.txt" for details.
Speech Recognition Manager: This folder contains version 1.5b6 of the Apple's new Speech Recognition Manager. This is beta software and documentation -- not yet ready for wide distribution or release in products. When finished, version 1.5 of the Speech Recognition extension will embody the first officially supported developer release of the Speech Recognition Manager. See the document " READ ME FIRST!" for details.
Input from early adopters of Apple's speech recognition technology has greatly improved the Speech Recognition Manager API. If you find bugs in the extension or documentation, please use the Apple Bug Reporter stack. Include the version information in the problem description and send to apple.bugs@applelink.apple.com.
System 7.5 Update v2.0: System 7.5 Update 2.0 is a set of system software enhancements that improves the reliability and performance of all computers running system software version 7.5, 7.5.1, or 7.5.2. You can install System 7.5 Update 2.0 even if you did not install Macintosh System 7.5 Update 1.0. See the file "Installing This Update" for details.
Worldwide System Software Update: This folder contains 11 localized versions of System 7.5.3 (PCI only), a system software release that has been customized to run on specific PCI-based Macintosh desktop systems. This version of System 7.5.3 is qualified to run on the Power Macintosh 7200, 7500, 8500, and 9500 series of desktop computers. System 7.5.3 (PCI only) is a full system software release that will install on a PCI-based Macintosh computer whether or not a System Folder exists. System 7.5.3 (PCI only) will only be available to customers with new PCI-based Macintosh computers.
