CD Highlights: Tool Chest and Mac OS 8 Editions, November 1997
This month, we had so much material that we had to put it on two CDs. The Mac OS 8 CD contains all the localized versions of Mac OS 8.0 that were available this month. The Tool Chest CD contains a few nice tools (most notably, the Apple Information Access Toolkit, which makes large bodies of documents searchable), new Open Transport sample code, and the Apple Mac OS Development Toolkit (a collection of Apple-labeled development software).
Tool Chest CD, November 1997
Development tools, SDKs, documentation, interfaces, and sample code—what more could you want? Here are highlights of the Tool Chest CD.
Apple Mac OS Development Toolkit
As announced in this issue, Apple is providing its premier Mac OS development tools to you on the Developer CD as a benefit of belonging to an Apple Developer Program. The Apple Mac OS Development Toolkit folder contains this month’s tools, which include the Macintosh Programmer’s Workshop (MPW) development environment, the MacApp development framework, the MrPlus performance analysis tool for PowerPC processor-based applications, the Power Macintosh Debugger, and the SourceBug debugger for 680x0-based Mac OS applications.
Apple Information Access Toolkit 1.0.1
The Apple Information Access Toolkit (AIAT) is an object-oriented information access engine that provides required capabilities for indexing, searching, and analyzing large volumes of documents. The IAT, formerly known by its code name V-Twin, is a collection of tools that you can use separately or together to perform a variety of information access tasks. This code requires Metrowerks CodeWarrior version 11 or Metrowerks CodeWarrior Professional version 1.
File Synchronization 1.1
The File Synchronization control panel allows you to set up and manage multiple copies of files in different folders. For example, if you maintain files on a mobile computer and copy those files to a desktop computer, you may find this control panel useful. It will automatically copy more recent files based on modification date, can display what will copy without actually copying it, and can run automatically or under user control.
Note: This tool is for developer use only and is not meant for the general public; do not distribute it to others. It works only on computers running Mac OS 8.
Virtual Reality Programming With QuickTime VR 2.0
This Adobe Acrobat file is the reference document for QuickTime VR 2.0. It includes both reference and tutorial material on the QuickTime VR Manager, Movie Controller, and File Format.
Interfaces&Libraries
This folder contains the latest versions of interfaces and libraries for 680x0 and PowerPC processor-based Macintosh development. This is the same set of files that was on the October SDK Developer CD but is included this month as a component of the Apple Mac OS Development Toolkit.
OpenTransport Sample Code
All of the following samples are featured in the latest release (version 1.2) of the book Inside Macintosh: Open Transport.
• GetSetOptions demonstrates a variety of uses of Open Transport’s option management routines.
• ListMania demonstrates a variety of techniques for using Open Transport’s list utility routines. Specifically, it shows how to use OTLIFO lists in a simple producer/consumer application.
• NoCopyReceives demonstrates the use of no-copy receive operations under Open Transport.
• OTEndpointInfo demonstrates how to query an endpoint for its “vital statistic” using OTGetEndpointInfo. For your reference, it also prints that information for the most commonly used Open Transport endpoint types.
• OTLookupNameTest demonstrates the use of an NBP mapper to look up NBP entities on an AppleTalk network using Open Transport.
• OTSimpleDownloadHTTP demonstrates the easiest way to use Open Transport to download an HTTP site address (URL) from a web server.
• TransferProvider demonstrates how to use OTTransferProviderOwnership to transfer the ownership of an Open Transport provider (that is, an endpoint) between Open Transport clients. In this example, an endpoint is transferred between a shared library and an application that calls that shared library.
Mac OS 8 CD, November 1997
This CD contains localized versions of Mac OS 8.0 for Chinese (both traditional and simplified), Dutch, English (British), French (four versions: “plain,” Belgian, Canadian, and Universal), German, Hangul/Korean, Italian, Kanji, Portuguese (Brazilian), Spanish, and Swedish.
