Licking Mac OS X is a unique intermediate-to-advanced title geared directly toward the toward the current Mac community.The book covers both the major and minor topics for the reader to master in Mac OS X, and because this operating system is so different from OS 9, the book will cover many OS X basics, such as installation, set-up, and negotiating the new desktop environment.Topics include:
-- Carbon: provides functionality for Classic and Cocoa
-- Classic: the environment that allows old non-recompiled Macintosh programs to run on Mac OS X
-- Cocoa: the environment that supports Java or C++ programs
-- Aqua: the new desktop GUI
-- Finder: the new file manager
-- The Aqua interface.
- ISBN10 0672319861
- ISBN13 9780672319860
- Publish Date 1 December 2000
- Publish Status Cancelled
- Out of Print 18 October 2003
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Macmillan Computer Publishing (a Pearson Education company)
- Imprint Sams Publishing
- Format Paperback
- Pages 500
- Language English