From bestselling Mac author and MacTech columnist Dave Mark, a comprehensive guide packed with hard-core technical material on the hottest Mac programming topics. Mark gives expert advice on sound, animation, scripting, resources, and plug-ins. Includes two disks with Apple Script, Run-Time version of Frontier, valuable shareware, source code from the book and test programs.

The new edition of this Macintosh programming bestseller is updated to reflect the many recent changes in both Macintosh hardware and software, including System 7, new versions of THINK C and ResEdit, and the new machines. This is the only book that teaches Macintosh programming at a beginning level.

While there are several books on programming for Mac OS X, Advanced Mac OS X Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide is the only one that contains explanations of how to leverage the powerful underlying technologies. This book gets down to the real nitty-gritty. The third edition is updated for Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6 and covers new technologies like DTrace, Instruments, Grand Central Dispatch, blocks, and NSOperation.

Harness the power of Cocoa's object-oriented software development environment with this book that is completely updated for Mac OS X 10.2. Cocoa has quickly gained recognition as the leading development framework for building OS X applications. Users will understand the common features found in Cocoa's tools: InterfaceBuilder, ProjectBuilder, the GCC compiler and the GDB debugger.

A guide for UNIX developers who want accurate information on getting up to speed with Mac OS X and its software development environment, this book provides programmers all the information they need to understand and use the operating system, its development tools, and key technologies such as Darwin, Cocoa, and AppleScript. Users are introduced to the UNIX-based foundations of Mac OS X and shown how they fit into Mac OS X architecture. Also provided is coverage of both GUI and command-line software development tools, realistic programming examples that developers will encounter, and a discussion of Macintosh-style software development.

Takes you through working examples, giving you the core concepts and principles of development in context so that you are ready to build the applications you've been imagining. This title introduces you to Objective-C and the Cocoa framework and demonstrates how you can use them together to write for the Mac, as well as the iPhone and iPod.