Reference Library
This page lists new and recently changed documents, including Articles, Guides, Reference, Release Notes, Sample Code, Technical Notes, and Technical Q&As. Most documents have a revision history, which details additions and changes to that document since the previous version. Look for "Revision History" at the bottom of the document or in the document's table of contents.

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2007-12-11 Dictionary Manager Reference (HTML) (PDF)
Deprecated document, adding to introduction a deprecation statement and pointers to documentation for replacement technology.
Minor Change Reference Text & Fonts
2007-12-11 Font Manager Reference (HTML) (PDF)
Added deprecation and replacement technology information for functions deprecated in Mac OS X v10.4 and v10.5.
Minor Change Reference Text & Fonts
2007-12-11 Managing Fonts: QuickDraw (HTML) (PDF)
Removed broken link. Deprecated document. Updated document overview and introduction to cite Core Text and ATS as replacement technologies.
Minor Change Guides Text & Fonts
2007-12-11 Script Manager Reference (HTML) (PDF)
Deprecated document. Added information about replacement technologies and workarounds for functions deprecated in Mac OS X v10.5.
Minor Change Reference Text & Fonts
2008-03-11 Strings Programming Guide for Core Foundation (HTML) (PDF)
Added information to "Handling External Representations of Strings" about string encodings that do not include a BOM.
Minor Change Guides Text & Fonts
2008-04-08 CPlusTest Reference (HTML)
Reprocessed content with new toolchain.
Minor Change Reference Tools
2008-06-19 Debugging with GDB (HTML)
Content Update Guides Tools
2008-01-23 GNU C 4.2 Preprocessor User Guide (HTML)
Updated for GCC 4.2.1
First Version Reference Tools
2008-01-23 GNU C/C++/Objective-C 4.2.1 Compiler User Guide (HTML)
Updated for GCC 4.2.1
First Version Reference Tools
2008-04-15 Xcode Design Tools for Class Modeling (HTML) (PDF)
New document that describes the Xcode Design Tools for Class Modeling.
First Version Guides Tools
2008-05-27 Xcode Overview (HTML) (PDF) (日本語 HTML) (日本語 PDF)
New document that describes the Xcode IDE and its major components, and provides and overview of the development process.
First Version Guides Tools
2008-07-08 Xcode Project Management Guide (HTML) (PDF)
New document that provides practical descriptions of the major development tasks developers perform with Xcode.
First Version Guides Tools
2008-06-05 Xcode Quick Tour Guide for Mac OS X (HTML) (PDF)
Made minor updates to several chapters. Changed the title from "Xcode Quick Tour Guide."
Minor Change Guides Tools
2008-05-22 Xcode Workspace Guide (HTML) (PDF)
New document that provides an overview of the Xcode workspace, and shows how to use its components and features.
First Version Guides Tools
2008-06-09 Apple Human Interface Guidelines (HTML) (PDF)
Fixed minor errors.
Minor Change Guides User Experience
2008-04-08 Data Browser Reference (HTML) (PDF)
Made minor technical fixes.
Minor Change Reference User Experience
2008-04-08 Disc Recording UI Framework Reference (HTML)
Reprocessed content with new toolchain.
Minor Change Reference User Experience
2007-12-04 Display Manager Reference (HTML) (PDF)
Updated legacy document information.
Minor Change Reference User Experience
2007-12-11 List Manager Reference (HTML) (PDF)
Added deprecation information.
Minor Change Reference User Experience
2008-02-08 Quick Look Programming Guide (HTML) (PDF)
Corrected minor errors.
Minor Change Guides User Experience
2007-12-12 Requirements for Quartz GL (HTML)
First Version
First Version Technical Q&As User Experience
2008-03-11 Suppressing the "unexpectedly quit" alert (HTML)
Updated content for Mac OS X 10.4 and 10.5. Fixed a typographical error. "~Library/Preferences/com.apple.CrashReporter.plist" should be "~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.CrashReporter.plist."
Minor Change Technical Q&As User Experience