Because Apple Directions has been discontinued, this is also the last CD Highlights column. In the future, you can tell what’s new each month by looking in the packages in the What’s New folder at the root level of each Developer CD. The rest of this column tells you about the new items on this month’s CD.
Balloony
This third-party, public-domain tool produces a template for building Balloon Help into your application. You provide your existing application or resource file, and the tool produces Rez source text for all of your dialog and menu resources. You can then edit and compile this file under MPW, CodeWarrior, or any other tool that compiles “.r” files. Balloony requires System 7.
C/F Registration Requests
This HyperCard stack enables you to register creator and file type IDs for your applications and will alert you if the creator ID has already been reserved (as of October 15, 1997). Note, however, that it is possible that the creator type you request may have been requested by someone else after the cutoff date for this stack.
Macintosh PowerBook 2400c Developer Note
This document describes the Macintosh PowerBook 2400c, which is available only in Japan and the United States. It compares the PowerBook 2400c with the PowerBook 3400, which is electrically similar.
Enhanced Power Macintosh 8600 and 9600 Developer Note
This document describes the enhancements that set the Power Macintosh 8600/250, 8600/300, 9600/300, and 9600/350 apart from the earlier models. Besides the higher clock speeds, these computers have 1 MB inline caches, larger hard disk drives, faster CD-ROM drives, and built-in Zip disk drives.
Power Macintosh G3 Developer Note
This document describes the hardware architecture of the new Apple Power Macintosh G3 family of computers. It defines the changes introduced in the logic board design that developers need to be aware of to design compatible memory and I/O expansion modules. It also lists all of the features and capabilities of the possible hardware configurations that the new architecture supports, as well as the design of the new modular desktop and tower enclosures.
ATA Software Guide
This new version, Working Draft 02, includes updated definitions and corrections in the sections that deal with the parameter block structures used by the functions that call the ATA Manager. The information in the note supports version 1 through version 4.1.1 of the ATA Manager and supersedes all previous drafts of this document.
DIMM Config&Interleave v1.1
This utility displays memory size, bank configuration, and interleave status for each DIMM slot of the PCI-based Mac OS computer it’s running on. You can use this utility to detect whether DIMMs have been installed properly. DIMM Config&Interleave runs only on PCI-based Mac OS computers that use the Hammerhead memory controller chip, such as the Power Macintosh 7300, 7500, 7600, 8500, 8600, 9500, and 9600 models.
This package includes source code so that you can incorporate the code into your own program.
WebObjects Developer Guide
This document provides in-depth information on how to use the WebObjects Framework to create web-based applications. It describes in detail what happens during the WebObjects event loop (called the request-response loop), describes methods you can use to override the default processing during the request-response loop, and discusses advanced topics, including how to provide a custom state-storage solution for your WebObjects application.
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.
MacApp & ACS R13 Update 2
The MacApp & ACS Release 13 Update 2 folder contains a complete release of the MacApp product. It incorporates software bug fixes and documentation changes made to Release 13 since it was released earlier this year. Update 2 is a complete replacement for MacApp & ACS Release 13—there is no need to incorporate the changes in Update 2 using an incremental process into your current MacApp Release 13. Most of the changes occurred in the Apple Class Suites (ACS)—in fact, the entire Pattern and Network suites have been replaced.
A new suite, Java, provides support for embedding a Java applet within a view. In addition, sockets support has been added to the Network suite. These additions have not been certified by testing to meet our “final” quality requirements, so you should use them at your own risk.
A long-promised Sizers sample application, which demonstrates the sizing behaviors, has been added to the A-Z folder within the Examples folder. (Size determiners will probably be removed from MacApp in the future and replaced with sizers.) This example will be enhanced in the future but is sufficient to demonstrate the power of sizers. You will also find a new sample that demonstrates the use of Apple Guide in the H folder within the A-Z folder.
Rhapsody_OpenStep_Docs
This folder contains new and revised Rhapsody documentation. If you’re bothered by the fact that some of these documents contain the word OpenStep, don’t worry—all OpenStep documentation applies to Rhapsody! Here are summaries for all the documents in this folder.
• Discovering OPENSTEP: A Developer Tutorial provides an introduction to OpenStep programming on Rhapsody. It guides you through the creation of three applications of increasing complexity. Along the way, it explains concepts and illustrates aspects of Objective-C, OpenStep classes, the development environment, and programming techniques. A short appendix offers a summary of object-oriented programming.
Note: This version of the tutorial contains new material, corrections of all reported bugs, and screen shots of the Rhapsody development environment. This is a preliminary document, and the authors are very interested in hearing any comments or reports of problems. Please send feedback to TechPubsFeedback@group.apple.com.
• Object-Oriented Programming and the Objective-C Language is an introduction to the principles of object-oriented programming in OpenStep and the official description of the Objective-C language.
• Appkit Reference is the complete reference for the classes, protocols, functions, and types of the Application Kit. The Application Kit provides the elements of a graphical user interface, as well as basic application behavior.
• Foundation Reference is the complete reference for Foundation classes, protocols, functions, and types. Foundation is the heart of every Rhapsody application; it provides basic object behavior, memory management, strings, collections, operating-system services, and object distribution and persistence.
• Topics in OPENSTEP Programming contains detailed discussions of the concepts behind the Foundation Kit, the architecture of the text system, and the unique services functionality that allows applications to easily share functionality.
• Developer Tools and Techniques explains how to program in the OpenStep development environment. It covers topics such as creating and managing a project, composing a graphical user interface, and making a custom subclass.
Note: This book was originally written for the OPENSTEP Enterprise 4.2 release. Although it contains much useful information, it does not accurately reflect the Rhapsody development environment.
• Developer Tools Reference contains reference documentation for the compiler, debugger, preprocessor, assembler, and other tools used in the Rhapsody development environment.
• Release Notes describes new features, known problems, bug fixes, and late-breaking information for the current Rhapsody release. Of particular interest is the Java Yellow Box APIs release note, which points to alpha reference documentation for the Java APIs (application programming interfaces) of the Application Kit and Foundation.
SnapshotSample1.0b4
Snapshot Sample is a tiny application that shows how to grab the icon positions for all the files on the desktop and later restore those icon positions. This is useful for programs, including games, that switch resolutions on the fly, thereby wreaking havoc on the user’s desktop icons.
Virtual User 2.5.1
Virtual User is the primary tool used by Apple Computer to perform integration, compatibility, and user-perceived performance testing. Virtual User 2.5.1 is a “fat” application that is compatible with Mac OS versions from 6.0.5 through 8.0. Virtual User 2.5.1 adds a built-in script debugger. This debugger allows you to set breakpoints, examine variables, and step through a Virtual User script as it is executing. It also adds Mac OS 8 compatibility, support for the Test Tools Apple Event Suite, and new image-location services. It runs on a Macintosh IIfx or later model, with at least 8 MB of memory and System 7 (System 7.5 or later preferred).
TEC 1.2.1 Release
The Text Encoding Converter enables you to add access to Unicode and other character encodings to your applications; it also provides text-conversion services between Macintosh character data and all major character sets used on the Internet.
International Versions of Mac OS 8
This CD contains new international versions of Mac OS 8: Croatian, Danish, Norwegian, and Turkish.
