This month we introduce Cary Henrie, our new artist for the System Software and SDK CDs. She's responsible for that killer cover art, but not for the small fib on the back of the SSW disc: This month's new version of Open Transport is 1.1b16, not v1.1b11c3. And finally, we have a big pile of new snippets from Pete Gontier & other DTS engineers.
Other new and revised stuff this month:
Apple Grayscale Appearance: The Apple Grayscale Appearance for System 7.5 specification provides the information you need to create a grayscale appearance for System 7.5 products. It consists of an Acrobat document and two folders of SimpleText files of enlarged graphics showing the details of human interface elements.
Developer Notes Update 04/96: The AppleVision 1710AV and 1710 Displays Developer Note describes design features of the AppleVision 1710AV Display, a new Apple audio/video display, and of the AppleVision 1710, a similar display with video capabilities only.
Int'l Developer Contacts 2/96: This folder contains a list of international developer programs and services contacts, in Adobe Acrobat format.
Open Transport 1.1b16: Apple Open Transport is the modern networking and communications subsystem for the Mac OS. It is based on industry standards and brings a new level of networking connectivity, control, and compatibility to Mac OS computers, while preserving and enhancing the hallmark of the Macintosh and Mac OS – built-in support for easy-to-use networking. This release features the Open Transport 1.1b16 Installer and Debug Installer, plus Software Development Kit.
OpenDoc 1.0.1: OpenDoc is an open industry standard architecture for building reusable, distributed, cross-platform software. OpenDoc is both a specification and a set of technologies used to build components. Developers who build their aplications consistent with the OpenDoc architecture can provide software that integrates and cooperates with other OpenDoc software.
With OpenDoc, software developers can provides specialized solutions to meet each customer's specific need. OpenDoc enables our software developers to build more powerful, higher-quality software in less time than it took to develop traditional monolithic applications.
Contains OpenDoc™ 1.0.1, documentation, development essentials and sample code.
OpenDoc Development Framework: This folder contains the 1.0d11 release of the OpenDoc Development Framework (ODF), formerly known as the OpenDoc Parts Framework (OPF).
This release supports OpenDoc DR4 for Macintosh only. If you want to do Windows part development use the ODF 1.0d8 release, which supports both OpenDoc DR1 for Windows and OpenDoc DR2 for Macintosh. The OpenDoc API has changed so much since DR1 that it became impractical for us to continue to support both APIs in the same code base. In d11 the following development environments are supported: for PowerPC, Metrowerks CodeWarrior 7.0 and Symantec C++ for Power Macintosh 8.0 (Rainbow); and for 68K, Symantec C++ for MPW. Please refer to the specific Build Guide documents located in the "Build System/Installation" folder for instructions on how to build parts and the framework.
See the document "ODF D11 Read Me" for further details.
OpenDoc International: This folder contains the Japanese localization of OpenDoc v1.0.1.
OT Code Resource: This piece of sample code shows how to call Open Transport from a 68K code resource written in either Metrowerks CodeWarrior C or Symantec C for MPW. The sample creates a HyperCard XCMD which returns the default Ethernet address for the machine using Open Transport calls.
PlainTalk 1.4.1: PlainTalk is a collection of software that enables your Macintosh to speak written text and respond to spoken commands. PlainTalk 1.4.1 includes three components, each with its own installer: English Text-to-Speech, Mexican Spanish Text-to-Speech, and English Speech Recognition.
The document "About PlainTalk 1.4.1" describes each of these three software packages, and discusses the differences between PlainTalk 1.4.1 and earlier versions of PlainTalk.
This folder also contains version 1.5a4 of the Apple's new Speech Recognition Manager. This is alpha software and documentation -- not ready for wide distribution or release in products yet. When finished, version 1.5 of the Speech Recognition extension will embody the first officially supported developer release of the Speech Recognition Manager.
ScriptX 1.5: The Apple ScriptX Interactive Multimedia Platform.
With the delivery of Version 1.5, the ScriptX Multimedia Platform is taking the first steps towards establishing a premier platform for the development and delivery of the next generation of multimedia applications and tools.
The platform consists of three elements: The ScriptX Media Player, the ScriptX Language and Class Library, and the ScriptX application development and authoring tools.
The ScriptX Language Kit Version 1.5 contains over 250 "core classes" for multimedia development. They include facilities for Title Management for creating and managing ScriptX applications, Composition Facilities, Graphics, Timed Behavior facilities for handling time-based streams and sequences, Interaction facilities for creating user interface elements, Data Management facilities, and Language Support Facilities.
See the document "About ScriptX" for details.
Worldwide System Software: This folder contains U.S. and Worldwide versions of System Software 7.5.2 for the Power Macintosh 7200, 7500, 8500, and 9500 computers, and for PowerBook models 190, 2300, and 5300.
In the folder "More System Software" on the Dev.CD Apr 96 SDK2 disc, you'll find Kanji versions of SSW 7.5.2 for PowerBook 190, 2300, and 5300, and Greek and Hebrew versions of System 7.5.
• To create floppy disks from the disk images, use the "Disk Copy 4.2" or "ShrinkWrap™ 1.4.2" applications in the Utilities folder. To create net install folders on your desktop, use the "DropDisk 1.0b5" or "ShrinkWrap™ 1.4.2" applications.
• The installer program for System Software 7.5.2 needs to be able to determine at run time the type of the machine it is installing the software for; therefore, you must run the installer on the appropriate machine, even if you are installing to a drive that is not the current boot drive.
• The "•common disks" folder contains disk images common to the PowerPC 7200/9500 and PowerPC 7500/8500 folders. Do not install from this folder (you can't anyway, as it contains no "Install 1" disks); install from the images in the PowerPC 7200/9500 or PowerPC 7500/8500 folders.
