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Inside Macintosh: OpenDoc Class Reference /


Preface - About This Book

OpenDoc is a set of shared libraries that you can use to build editors and viewers for compound documents and other component software. This book provides reference documentation for OpenDoc on the Mac OS platform. It describes the platform-independent and Mac OS-specific classes, methods, types, constants, and error codes (exceptions) defined by OpenDoc. If you are developing a part editor for the Mac OS platform, you need the information in this book.

This book is a companion to the OpenDoc Programmer's Guide for the MacOS, which provides an architectural overview, synthesizes design concepts, and gives specific programming recommendations to illuminate the information in this book. Before you read this book, you should already be familiar with the basic concepts of OpenDoc, as described in the first chapter of the Programmer's Guide. As you read the information in this book, you may also want to refer to the relevant chapters of the Programmer's Guide for information on how the classes and methods described here work together in a functioning part editor.

This book does not provide code samples. For detailed tutorial instructions and code listings taken from functioning Mac OS part editors, see the OpenDoc Cookbook for the Mac OS.


Preface Contents
Organization
Class Descriptions
Method Descriptions
OpenDoc and SOMobjects
Conventions Used in This Book
Component Integration Laboratories

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17 JUL 1996




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