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The Preference Panes Framework

Introduction

The Preferences Panes framework defines the interface for subclasses to provide preference panes to System Preferences or other applications.

The Preference Panes framework can be used only by an Objective-C Cocoa application. The preference pane also needs to be written in Objective-C with its user interface implemented using Cocoa.

Preference Panes Framework Classes

The Preferences Panes framework consists of the NSPreferencePane class, an abstract subclass of NSObject. An NSPreferencePane subclass serves as a controller, marshaling data between the user interface defined within a nib file and System Preferences or other applications.

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