Programming Mac OS X: A guide for UNIX developers

385 Pages·2003·14.748 MB·English

by  Kevin

Programming Mac OS X:
A GUIDE FOR UNIX
DEVELOPERS
KEVIN O’MALLEY
MANNING
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Programming Mac OS X
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Programming Mac OS X
A UNIX
GUIDE FOR DEVELOPERS
KEVIN O’MALLEY
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brief contents
PART 1 OVERVIEW ............................................................................. 1
1 (cid:1) Welcome to Mac OS X 3
2 (cid:1) Navigating and using Mac OS X 27
PART 2 TOOLS ................................................................................... 55
3 (cid:1) Project Builder and Interface Builder 57
4 (cid:1) Development tools 109
PART 3 PROGRAMMING.................................................................. 169
5 (cid:1) Objective-C and the Cocoa development frameworks 171
6 (cid:1) Cocoa programming 203
7 (cid:1) AppleScript programming 245
8 (cid:1) Mac OS X and beyond 279
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contents
foreword xiii
preface xv
acknowledgments xviii
about this book xix
about the author xxiii
about the cover illustration xxiv
PART 1 OVERVIEW.................................................................. 1
1 Welcome to Mac OS X 3
1.1 Introduction 4
Origins of Mac OS X 5
1.2 The Macintosh user interface 6
1.3 The Mac OS X user interface 8
The desktop 8 (cid:1) Menus 8 (cid:1) The Dock 10
Window layering 11 (cid:1) Dialog boxes 11 (cid:1) Drawers 12
Keyboard navigation 12 (cid:1) Other interface features 13
1.4 The Mac OS X architecture 13
Architecture layers 15 (cid:1) The kernel environment 16
Core Services layer 20 (cid:1) Application Services layer 21
Application Environment layer 22 (cid:1) Aqua 26
1.5 Summary 26
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2 Navigating and using Mac OS X 27
2.1 Introduction 28
2.2 Shells 29
Terminal features 31
2.3 Help system 32
Help Viewer 33
2.4 User accounts and privileges 33
Creating user accounts 34
2.5 Booting and default services 36
2.6 Programs and Mac OS X bundles 37
2.7 Security issues 39
2.8 File system 39
Finder 41 (cid:1) Case sensitivity and pathname delimiters 43
2.9 Single-user mode 44
2.10 System log files 45
2.11 Processes management 45
2.12 Common commands and tools 46
2.13 Scripting languages 48
AppleScript 48
2.14 Development tools 50
2.15 X Window under Mac OS X 51
Installing the X server 52
2.16 UNIX to Mac OS X software projects 53
2.17 Summary 54
PART 2 TOOLS....................................................................... 55
3 Project Builder and Interface Builder 57
3.1 Introduction 58
Macintosh Programmer’s Workbench 59
THINK Pascal and THINK C 59 (cid:1) CodeWarrior 60
Project Builder and Interface Builder 60
3.2 Creating an application with Project Builder 62
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CONTENTS ix
3.3 Project Builder in depth 67
Targets and build styles 67 (cid:1) Project Builder’s UNIX tools 68
Project Builder’s interface 69 (cid:1) Project Builder scenarios 78
3.4 Creating an application with Interface Builder 100
Interface Builder scenarios 101
3.5 Summary 108
4 Development tools 109
4.1 Introduction 110
4.2 UNIX development tools under Mac OS X 112
Editors 112 (cid:1) Mac OS X editing tools 113
Version control 117 (cid:1) Static code analysis tools 121
4.3 Compilers and build tools 122
4.4 Mac OS X Aqua-based development tools 122
UNIX-based editors 122 (cid:1) Mac OS X-based editors 127
4.5 Apple’s GUI-based development tools 127
Apple Help Indexing Tool 128 (cid:1) AppleScript Studio 128
FileMerge 129 (cid:1) Icon Composer 132
Interface Builder 132 (cid:1) JavaBrowser 133
MRJAppBuilder 134 (cid:1) MallocDebug 135 (cid:1) ObjectAlloc 143
PEF Viewer 143 (cid:1) PackageMaker 144 (cid:1) Pixie 144
Project Builder 144 (cid:1) PropertyListEditor 144
Quartz Debug 146 (cid:1) Sampler 147 (cid:1) Thread Viewer 150
icns Browser 155
4.6 Apple’s command-line development tools 156
ps (process status) and top (system usage statistics) 156
sc_usage: showing system call usage statistics 158
fs_usage: reporting system calls and page faults related to the
filesystem in real-time 160 (cid:1) gprof: displaying execution
profile data 161 (cid:1) leaks: searching a process’s memory for
unreferenced malloc buffers 163 (cid:1) heap: listing all the
malloc-allocated buffers in the process’s heap 165
malloc_history: showing malloc allocations that a process
hasperformed 165 (cid:1) sample: profiling a process during
atimeinterval 166
4.7 Summary 167
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