See this folder for the complete suite of Inside Macintosh books and other documentation from Apple's Technical Publications group, with documents in both HTML and PDF for convenient printing.
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Interactive Media Resources
There are 3 new survival guides this month:
Avoid Audio Pitfalls
Do you encounter audio-oriented tasks in your multimedia production that are being tackled by many team members – small editing tricks, recording rough voice tracks for placeholders, etc? Do you find yourself in the position of having to fix or clean up the results of efforts by well-meaning folks who didn’t quite grasp the consequences of their actions? If you answered yes, Jeff Essex's quick list of common audio pitfalls, and their solutions is a must-read for you.
Design for Reuse
One of the biggest challenges facing today’s programmers is the issue of "design for reuse." Every application has a specific set of requirements and goals which requires some customized code, but starting the code from scratch on every project is not the best use of your company’s available resources. How do you determine the best way to segment your code? See this survival guide for advice and techniques to effectively reuse code and resources to streamline development.
Frameworks
All about frameworks, which can be defined as a set of classes and other resources commonly available to many applications. Learning to use and create frameworks effectively will have a positive affect on your application development cycle-time and reliability.
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Tools, Sample Code and More
Ad Lib
Ad Lib v3.0a4 is a 'pre-release' version of Ad Lib, a tool for creating and editing MacApp views. This version incorporates support for all new views added to MacApp in all Updates of Release 13. And it can be run under Mac OS 8.5.
aevt dcmd
The aevt (Apple event) dcmd is a MacsBug tool that displays a formatted listing of the contents of an AppleEvent record. It is most useful when used in conjunction with an ATB or TVB set on AESend to examine the contents of an event being sent or the result returned.
Gestalt Selectors List 4.3
This document lists all selectors, known to the creator, for use with the Gestalt Manager, including selector codes installed by Apple (system) software or by software from third parties.. The information in this list is useful for programmers who use the Gestalt Manager with their software (even using externals, as with HyperCard, 4th Dimension and so on).
MacApp
MacApp & ACS Release 13 are considered the 'final' and officially supported version of the MacApp application framework. The latest release, Update 4, is now ready for your use. It provides support for building under Metrowerks' CodeWarrior Pro 3 (IDE 3.1) and CodeWarrior Pro 4 (IDE 3.2). This release also integrates Yoshida-san's modifications for building under MPW.
OTTCPWillDial
This sample shows how to use the Network Setup library (as introduced in Mac OS 8.5) to determine whether opening a TCP/IP provider will cause a modem to dial.
PGPuam ƒ
PGPuam provides enhancement to the standard AppleShare IP User Access Methods (UAM) that enables a user to perform two-way strongly authenticated logins to an AppleShare IP server from a Mac OS client. PGPuam system consists of two major components, a client and a server plug-in.
Record Sound to Disk
Sample code showing how to asynchronously record sound to disk using the Sound Manager's SPBRecord and the File Manager's PBWriteAsync calls.
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SDKs& DDKs
AppleShare IP 6.1 SDK
Continuing to offer the traditional server software suite, AppleShare IP 6.1 now supports Mac OS 8.5, web-based remote admin, TCP/IP filtering, multi-domain Web Server support, secure printing, shared IMAP folders, and more. Within this SDK, you will find detailed developer documentation, interfaces, libraries and sample code that will allow you to develop your applications and plug-ins for the AppleShare IP APIs.
