Ebook: MAC OS X: advanced development techniques: Includes index
Author: Zobkiw Joe
- Tags: Macintosh (Computer), Macintosh (Computer)--Programming, Operating systems (Computers), Mac OS, Macintosh (Computer) -- Programming
- Year: 2003
- Publisher: Pearson Education
- City: Indianapolis;Ind
- Edition: 1st ed
- Language: English
- epub
Mac OS X Advanced Development Techniques introduces intermediate to advanced developers to a wide range of topics they will not find so extensively detailed anywhere else.
The book concentrates on teaching Cocoa development first, and then takes that knowledge and teaches in-depth, advanced Mac OS X development through detailed examples. Topics covered include: writing applications in Cocoa, supporting plug-in architectures, using shell scripts as startup items, understanding property lists, writing screen savers, implementing preference panes and storing global user preferences, custom color pickers, components, core and non-core services, foundations, frameworks, bundles, tools, applications and more. Source code in Objective-C, Perl, Java, shell script, and other languages are included as appropriate.
These solutions are necessary when developing Mac OS X software, but many times are overlooked due to their complexities and lack of documentation and...