It’s my first time in the Developer CD Series driver’s seat and there are changes up ahead. January is usually the month we deliver the System Software and Software Development Kit (SDK) editions of the Developer CD Series. As you may know, the new Mac OS 7.6 (code named "Harmony") is scheduled for early 1997. It is with this in mind that we’ve decided to delay the January System Software CD. Not to worry, though—you won’t receive fewer CDs. In fact, you received a bootable System Software Special Edition CD in the November/December mailing to tide you over while we synchronize the next System Software CD with the the reference release of the next system software. And think of all the extra time you’ll have to peruse the January SDK CD, which—in addition to updates to snippets, QuickDraw 3D, and QuickDraw GX—includes the following new and revised packages.
Note:
You may notice that the Utilities folder on SDK1 is an alias to the Utilities folder on SDK2. This was necessary in order to make room for all of the new SDKs on SDK1.
Apple Shared Library Manager
ASLM 2.0.1 is a bug-fix release for ASLM 2.0. Included in this folder are the ASLM 2.0.1 installer, the licensing disk, and the SDK. The major changes support PowerPC processor–based ASLM on the Performa 5200, 5300, 6200, and 6300 families of computers. For more detailed information about the bug fixes to this release, see the Change History document.
Advanced Color Imaging on the Mac OS
This Inside Macintosh book describes how to enhance your application’s color capabilities using the Palette Manager, the Color Picker Manager, the ColorSync Manager, and the Color Manager. Its companion book, Advanced Color Imaging Reference, documents the constants, data types, and functions your application uses to provide color support.
This folder contains revised versions of the two books and provides hypertext links to help you find the new and modified material. For an overview of these changes, see the document What’s New in ACI.
Interfaces & Libraries
This folder contains the latest universal interface files and libraries for Macintosh development. Included in the folder are headers and libraries for Game Sprockets 1.0, QuickDraw 3D 1.0.6, and Open Transport 1.1.
OpenDoc 1.1
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. If you build your applications in accord with the OpenDoc architecture, you can provide software that integrates and cooperates with other OpenDoc software.
With OpenDoc you can provide specialized solutions to meet each customer’s specific need. OpenDoc enables you to build more powerful, higher quality software in less time than it takes to develop traditional “monolithic” applications.
This folder contains OpenDoc 1.1 and an updated collection of tools, components, and documentation needed for developing OpenDoc components.
OpenDoc Development Framework
This folder contains the release 2 of the OpenDoc Development Framework (ODF). In addition to other improvements, this release of ODF improves the overall stability of your part and makes the framework more usable. This release supports OpenDoc 1.1 and is likely to be the last Mac OS–only release of ODF. Expect to see OpenDoc Windows support in the next release (ODF 3). For information about changes in this version, see the file ODF Release 2.
OpenDoc International
OpenDoc J-1.1 GM is a localized version of OpenDoc for Japan. This version supports KanjiTalk version 7.5.3 or later. Included in the OpenDoc International folder are Recipes and Development folders along with the OpenDoc J-1.1 installer. These items supplement the OpenDoc SDK and help you understand how to use TSM (Text Services Manager) and TSMTE (Text Services Manager TextEdit) in programming OpenDoc parts.
Open Transport 1.1.1
Apple Open Transport is the modern networking and communications subsystem for the Mac OS. It’s 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 package includes the Open Transport 1.1.1 GM installer, the 1.1.1 SDK, and the Open Transport 1.1.1b9 debug installer, as well as the Open Transport 1.1 SDK and associated 1.1b16 debug installer. Open Transport 1.1.1 is a bug-fix release; the major change in this release is support for the Performa 5200, 5300, 6200, and 6300 families of computers. This release also includes numerous bug fixes for MacTCP backward compatibility and for native PAP implementations.
For a description of the bug fixes in this release, refer to the release notes.
PC Card Manager SDK
The PC Card Manager 3.0 SDK is a comprehensive development environment that describes how the Personal Computer Memory Card International Association (PCMCIA) expansion card interface is implemented in PowerBook Hooper (model 3400.)
The PC Card Manager 3.0 SDK is the future architecture for upcoming PowerBook Hooper products. If you want to produce PC cards for the PowerBook 190, 5300, and 1400 series of computers, refer to the PC Card Manager 2.0 SDK. The support offered by the PC Card Manager 3.0 SDK includes System Interfaces, a PowerPC Library, documentation, and sample code; the SDK requires Macintosh System 7.5.3 or later.
Speech Recognition Manager
We’re pleased to provide you with this package, which contains version 1.5.1 of Apple’s Speech Recognition Manager. Version 1.5.1 of the Speech Recognition extension implements the second officially supported developer release of the Speech Recognition Manager.
The documentation describes version 1.5 (the previous release) of the Speech Recognition extension and the API (application programming interface) and Toolbox it embodies. In addition, the Speech Recognition Manager Docs folder contains a What’s New file that describes the bug fixes and feature enhancements in version 1.5.1 (the current release) of the Speech Recognition extension.
Input from early adopters of Apple’s speech recognition technology has contributed greatly to 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 e-mail it to apple.bugs@applelink.apple.com.
See the READ ME FIRST! document for details.
Speech Synthesis Manager
In this folder you’ll find everything you need to know to make your applications talk using Apple’s English and Spanish text-to-speech software.
In addition to this text-to-speech developer information, you’ll find a Speech Synthesis Manager Installers folder that contains the English Text-to-Speech and Mexican Spanish Text-to-Speech installers. Apple’s installer scripts for text-to-speech ensure that the appropriate speech synthesizers are installed for the available hardware and system software. They also remove the outdated versions of text-to-speech. Because there are currently four speech synthesizers, each with differing requirements, as well as many previous configurations that were released under a variety of names, getting this right is no simple task. If you ship text-to-speech with your application, please take advantage of Apple’s installer scripts, either by directly licensing and including the English Text-to-Speech and Mexican Spanish Text-to-Speech installers (available both as disk images and as network or hard-disk installers) or by working from the source for the scripts, which is provided here.
You can obtain the system software that lets your Mac OS computer talk in any of three ways:
• Users can find it preinstalled on many Macintosh computers.
• Users can download Apple’s PlainTalk English Text-to-Speech and Mexican Spanish Text-to-Speech software from Apple’s web site.
• Developers can license this software for distribution with their applications. For more information about licensing Apple software, contact Apple’s licensing group at 512-919-2645 or sw.license@applelink.apple.com.
You can find more information on Apple’s web site (http://www.speech.apple.com/).
