Apple Computer, Inc

Recently the field of computer-human interaction has exploded with new ideas, technologies, and issues. In response to these many developments, Apple presents this beautiful, full-color book that not only describes the interface guidelines for Macintosh computers, but also examines the theory behind the famous Macintosh "look and feel" and the process of designing and testing an interface.

Macintosh Human Interface Guidelines

Apple Computer Inc

Introduces one of the Mac OS X's principal application environments, allowing the development of object-oriented APIs in both Java and Objective-C.

Learning Cocoa

James Duncan Davidson

Learning Cocoa with Objective-C eases you into the experience of Cocoa development, not merely by reading, but by doing. After an introduction to Project Builder and Interface Builder, you'll quickly come up to speed on the concepts of object-oriented programming with Objective-C, the language of choice for building applications to run on Mac OS X. Each chapter presents a different sample program for you to build, with easy-to-follow, step-by-step instructions to teach you the fundamentals of Cocoa programming. The techniques learned in each chapter lay the foundation for more advanced techniques and concepts presented in later chapters. You'll learn how to : • Effectively use Apple's suite of Developer Tools, including Project Builder and Interface Builder • Build single- and multiple-window document-based applications • Manipulate text data using Cocoa's text handling capabilities • Draw with Cocoa • Localize your application for multiple language support • Polish off your application by adding an icon for use in the Dock, providing Help, and packaging your program for distribution At the end of each chapter, you'll be presented with a series of Exercises, challenging you to tweak the application you've just built, or to go back to an earlier example and add some new functionality to it. Solutions are provided in the Appendix, but you're encouraged to learn by trying. Originally written by insiders at Apple Computer, Inc., and revised for this new edition by James Duncan Davidson, this book is based on the Jaguar release of Mac OS X 10.2. Learning Cocoa with Objective-C covers the latest updates to the Cocoa frameworks, including the AddressBook framework. Also included with this edition are a handy API quick reference card and an appendix that includes a listing of resources essential to any Cocoa developer-beginning or advanced.

Learning Cocoa with Objective-C

Discusses the principles of programming any of the machines in the Apple Macintosh family of computers, including event-driven programming, memory management, file management, and use of specialized software.

Macintosh Programmer's Introduction to the Macintosh Family

The typical user of this reference should be an application or device-level programmer familiar with the PostScript page description language. The material contained in this reference can be used by Apple and non-Apple CPU programmers who wish to provide application support for any of Apple's PostScript printers.

For the LaserWriter, LaserWriter Plus, LaserWriter IINT and IINTX.

Apple LaserWriter Reference

Using QuickDraw 3D, programmers can now incorporate spectacular graphic effects into their applications. This book/CD-ROM package describes the application programming interfaces that programmers can use to develop 3D applications and software. The CD-ROM contains the complete QuickDraw 3D system itself and a complete database of the QuickDraw 3D API.

3D Graphics Programming with QuickDraw 3D

Caroline Rose

Inside Macintosh

Learning Carbon will get you up to speed quickly on using Carbon, a collection of C programming interfaces, to create Mac OS X applications. It takes you step by step through the design and building of a Carbon application, introducing two key development tools : Project Builder and Interface Builder. The book shows you how to build common application functionalities into a Carbon program, such as window handling, printing, opening and saving files, responding to menu commands and controls in the interface, and providing help to users. After reading this book, you should be comfortable enough to start writing your own Carbon applications. You'll learn key concepts about Carbon and Mac OS X programming, including : Carbon event management ; Resource handling ; Bundle anatomy ; Language localisation Although extensive programming experience is not required, familiarity with a procedural language such as C will make you feel right at home with Carbon. Written by insiders at Apple Computer, Inc. who have access to engineers deeply involved in creating Mac OS X, this book offers information that you can get nowhere else.

Learning Carbon

QuickDraw GX is the powerful graphics architecture for the Macintosh. Far more than just a revision of QuickDraw, QuickDraw GX is a unified approach to graphics and typography that gives programmers flexibility and power in drawing and printing all kinds of shapes, images, and text. This extension to Macintosh system software is documented in a library of books that are themselves are extension to the Inside Macintosh series. The Quickdraw GX Library is clear, concise and organized by topic.

Printing Extensions and Drivers. QuickDraw GX

This second edition of the Apple Numerics Manual is a thorough description of the Standard Apple Numeric Environment (SANE). Includes new tips on IEEE standard arithmetic and the SANE engines built into the Apple IIGS and all Macintosh models.

Apple Numerics Manual

Motorola, Inc

This book defines the architecture requirements and minimum system requirementsfor a computer system that is designed to become an open industry standard.These requirements provide a description of the devices, interfaces, and dataformats required to design and build a PowerPC-based computer. This standard isdesigned to provide software compatibility for several operating environments.Systems built to these requirements can use industry-standard componentscurrently found in IBM-compatible and Apple® Macintosh® personal computers. Thesesystems are expected to run various future versions of operating systemsincluding Apple Mac OSTM, IBM AIXTM and PowerPCTM Editions of IBM OS/2 Warp ConnectTM,Microsoft Windows NTTM Workstation, Novell NetwareTM, and SunSoft SolarisTM. This book is the primary source of information for anyone developing a hardwareplatform, an operating system, or hardware component to be part of thesestandard systems. It describes the hardware-to-operating-system interface thatis essential to anyone building hardware platforms and provides the minimumsystem configurations that platform designers must meet when building a standardplatform. Component manufacturers require this information to producecompatible chips and adapters to use on these platforms, and software developersrequire the information on mandatory functions and documented interfaces. The architecture is intended to support a range of PowerPC microprocessor-based system implementations including portable, desktop, and server classsystems, and allows multiple operating-system implementations across a widerange of environments and functions. This enables new hardware and softwareenhancements that are necessary for the development of improved userinterfaces, higher performance, and broader operating environments.

A System Architecture

PowerPC Microprocessor Common Hardware Reference Platform

Owner's Guide

Apple LaserWriter IInt/ntx

The definitive book for anyone who wants to understand what multimedia is all about and how it is created. A hypertext-like design makes the book accessible and user-friendly, so that the reader can quickly master the concepts, tools, techniques, and technologies behind the biggest buzzword around today.

A Guide to the World of Multimedia

Multimedia Demystified

The Apple Desktop Interface

Apple Human Interface Guidelines

Apple Programmer's and Developer's Association

For the Apple LaserWriter and LaserWriter Plus printers.

A Collection that Highlights the Role of Technology in Teaching and Learning

Apple Education Research Reports

Here is essential guidance for writing software that interacts with built-in and peripheral hardware devices. It covers critical hardware and device programming topics and provides background information important to anyone using the File, Sound, Printing, or AppleTalk Managers.

Devices

Designing Cards and Drivers for the Macintosh Family

Describes the floating-point numerics environment provided with the first release of PowerPC processor-based Macintosh computers, including IEEE standard 754, upon which the environment is based, and shows programmers how to create floating point values. Original. (Advanced).

PowerPC Numerics

Details the hundreds of changes and additions to the system software routines in System 7. Numerous examples, warnings, and hints throughout assure that developers can fully utilize these capabilities in their applications.

Apple Computer, Inc

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