CD Highlights: SDK and System Software, January 1998
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SDK and System Software, December 1998
What's New on this month's Developer CDs? In addition to this overview, the complete listing of new and revised content can be found in the Contents Catalog included on this CD. Please see the Contents Catalog's Browser mode for all new and revised packages, detailed information such as installation instructions, folder paths, and volumes of release or revision. The Contents Catalog can even help you navigate to the desired destination.
New this month...
Apple Location Manager
Apple Location Manager (ALM) is an API and Control Panel that developers have used to allow their settings or preferences to be switched in concert with other developer's settings (these suites of settings are called “Locations”).
Previous versions were restricted to run only on PowerBooks, but ALM 2.0 will run on any MacOS-equipped machine, as users (and developers) have demanded. In addition to desktop support, ALM 2.0 features a dramatically simplified user interface that should make location configuration much easier.
Apple System Profiler
Apple System Profiler (ASP) lets you gather information about the configuration of your computer. The information that ASP reports may be useful if you place a call to the Apple User Assistance Center or for recording system configurations during testing.
ATA Demo 1.1 and ATAerrorDetector
ATA Demo shows how to use the ATA manager. ATAerror Detector features sample code demonstrating how to test for certain kinds of ATA hard drives which would cause problems for some PowerBooks in SCSI disk mode.
Developer Notes
The Macintosh PowerBook G3 and Power Macintosh G3 Developer Notes are updates to items released on the December Developer CD.
Enterprise & Internet Docs
Getting Started with Web Objects provides an introduction to using the WebObjects Framework to create applications that run on the World Wide Web or on corporate intranets. Through a series of tutorials, it shows you how to use the tools WebObjects Builder and Project Builder to create simple scripted applications, applications that access a database, and applications
written in the Java programming language.
Inside Macintosh
Inside Macintosh is a collection of books, organized by topic, that describe the system software of Macintosh computers. Together, these books provide the essential reference for programmers, designers, and engineers creating applications for the Macintosh family of computers.
The January Developer CD contains 5 additions to the complete suite of Inside Macintosh documentaion released on the December 97 Reference Library edition: Text Encoding Conversion Manager, Programming with MRJ Toolkit, Networking with Open Transport, and Mac OS Toolbox Reference.
Interactive Media Resources
Look here for interactive media content and news. This month you'll find four success guides: The Interactive Corporation Success Guide—Top Down Selling, Interactive Sound Design on the Web: featuring Beatnik™ Technology, the Killer Content Workbook, and WebObjects Memory Management.
Mac OS 8
The separate System Software disc contains 8.0 CD Installs for:
Catalan
Croatian
Danish
Finnish
French, Swiss
Hangul Korean
Norwegian
Portuguese
Portuguese, Brazilian
Turkish
Requires a Mac OS–based computer with a 68040 or PowerPC processor (excludes 68030-based systems with 68040 processor upgrade card). At least 12MB of physical RAM with Virtual Memory set to at least 20MB
Profile Renamer
ProfileRenamer is a simple drag-and-drop application which can help you make sure that the name of the profile file is the same as the name in the profile.
