Inside Macintosh: Macintosh Toolbox Essentials /

Chapter 7 - Finder Interface

About the Finder Interface

You can use the Finder interface to

• create the resources--such as those describing icons--that the Finder uses to extract and to display information about your application and its documents (Generally, all applications should provide these resources for their files.)
• determine and change the Finder information structure stored in a catalog file (Generally, most applications need to determine--and many might wish to set--information in the catalog file.)
• support stationery pads so that users can easily use templates for their documents (Generally, most applications that create documents should support stationery pads.)
• locate the directories typically located in the System Folder (Generally, many applications will want to access these directories.)