macOS Recommended Reading for Snow Leopard

[Catfish_Man]

There's a lot of new knowledge to take in with Snow Leopard; the following links are ones that either I've personally found helpful, or I believe contain fairly essential pieces of information for dealing with the new OS. The first four links are the really important ones.

Overall developer release notes for 10.6:
http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/releasenotes/MacOSX/WhatsNewInOSX/Articles/MacOSX10_6.html

Xcode 3.2 release notes:
http://developer.apple.com/mac/libr...le_ref/doc/uid/TP40001051-DontLinkElementID_1

Cocoa Foundation release notes:
http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/releasenotes/Cocoa/Foundation.html

Cocoa Appkit release notes:
http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/releasenotes/Cocoa/AppKit.html

Concurrency guide (lots of juicy grand central dispatch info):
http://developer.apple.com/mac/libr...ogrammingGuide/Introduction/Introduction.html

64 bit transition guide (old, but more relevant now):
http://developer.apple.com/mac/libr...ocoa64BitGuide/Introduction/Introduction.html

 

[Wowzera]

Just to confirm: XCode 3.2 will not build/work with Java, etc anymore?
Reading the release notes is what I understood

 

[Cromulent]

Another for the list:

Static Analysis in Xcode 3.2:
http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/featuredarticles/StaticAnalysis/index.html

 

[Cinder6]

Good list! Glad to see that we can finally rename projects in Xcode.

 

[chown33]

Just to confirm: XCode 3.2 will not build/work with Java, etc anymore?
Reading the release notes is what I understood

Which release notes did you read to conclude that Xcode 3.2 won't build/work with Java any more?

Java isn't mentioned in the OS release notes. And it only appears in the Xcode release notes by pointing to the java-dev list.

 

[kainjow]

NSImage: CALayer accepts NSImage as contents

I knew this was coming, but still had to write a function to convert one to another for 10.5 support just yesterday :fake mad:

Edit: Looks like Cocoa-Java is gone: The Java runtime for running Cocoa applications has been removed in SnowLeopard.

 

[Wowzera]

Which release notes did you read to conclude that Xcode 3.2 won't build/work with Java any more?

Java isn't mentioned in the OS release notes. And it only appears in the Xcode release notes by pointing to the java-dev list.

I'd read it somewhere that XCode only has Cocoa, Applescript, etc tools
Anyway I am downloading XCode right now and hopefully I can download all dev tools

 

[Cromulent]

For those interested in OpenCL you will need to have the OpenCL specification as well as the documentation on the Apple website. The specification can be found here:

http://www.khronos.org/registry/cl/specs/opencl-1.0.43.pdf

Edit: Any chance of making this a sticky? Or should I put it in the MacRumors wiki thing?

 

[kainjow]

There's a new AppleScript-Cocoa bridge called AppleScriptObjC which brings full Cocoa support to AppleScript, just like Leopard supported Ruby and Python:
http://developer.apple.com/mac/libr...ptingAutomation/RN-AppleScriptObjC/index.html

 

[HiRez]

Thanks for the links, Catfish Man, looks like Leopard is worth the $30 just for the developer updates alone.