Beginning Mac OS X programming : Description based on print version record. - "Programmer to programmer"--Cover

722 Pages·2005·8.436 MB·English

by  Michael Trent, Drew McCormack

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Beginning Mac OS® X Programming
Michael Trent and Drew McCormack
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Beginning Mac OS® X Programming
Michael Trent and Drew McCormack
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Beginning Mac OS®X Programming
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Beginning Mac OSX programming / Michael Trent and Drew McCormack.
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About the Authors
Michael Trent has been programming in Objective-C since1997 and programming Macs since well
before that. He is a regular contributor to Steven Frank’s www.cocoadev.comwebsite, technical
reviewer for numerous books and magazine articles, and occasional dabbler in Mac OS X open source
projects. Currently, he is using Objective-C and Apple Computer’s Cocoa frameworks to build profes-
sional and consumer applications for Mac OS X. Michael holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer
Science and a Bachelor of Arts in Music from Beloit College of Beloit, Wisconsin. He lives in Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania, with his family.
Drew McCormackhas a Ph.D. in Chemical Physics and works as a computational scientist in the
Theoretical Chemistry group at the Free University in Amsterdam. He is involved in developing the
Quantum Chemistry software ADF (www.scm.com), which is run the world over on computers ranging
from desktop Macs to massive supercomputers. He programs regularly in Python, C++, Objective-C,
Fortran, and Bash, and in his spare time develops the Cocoa financial software Trade Strategist (www.
trade-strategist.com). Drew maintains the Maniacal Extent website—a reference to the chaotic
dimension, time—which details his various interests and activities (www.maniacalextent.com).
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Contents
Acknowledgments xvii
Introduction xix
Part I: Mac OS X Developer Resources 1
Chapter 1: The Mac OS X Environment 3
Introducing the Mac OS X 3
Try It Out: Slide Master 4
The Core Operating System 6 m
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The System Library 8 o
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Unix Commands 9 eb
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Try It Out: Experiencing Darwin’s Command-Line Interface 9 o
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Graphics and Media Layers 11 p
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The Quartz Compositor 12 w
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Quartz 2D 14
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Application Frameworks and UI 15 o
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Cocoa 16 w
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Carbon 16 D
Java JDK 17
Apple Human Interface Guidelines 18
Summary 19
Exercises 20
Chapter 2: Developer Tools 21
Installing the Developer Software 21
Developer Applications 22
Build Tools 22
Performance Tools 22
MallocDebug 23
ObjectAlloc 24
Quartz Debug 25
Sampler 26