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Leopard Technology Overview

by Scott McNulty Oct 24th 2006 at 8:30PM



People have whipped themselves into a froth thanks to this Leopard Technology Overview, which is the first in an ADC series called Leopard Technology Series for Developers. Why are people so excited? Mostly because of the glimpses it gives us into Leopard. Here are some highlights:
  • Interface Builder 3.0 – Core Animation support included and a new IB Kit API
  • Xray – DTrace based GUI tool that allows you to visually see how your app is performing
  • Dashcode – a Widget IDE which we have covered before
  • Core Animation – create whizbang interfaces in no time flat!
  • Objective-C 2.0 – lots of improvements to the language that Mac geeks love
  • iChat integrated all over the place, including iChat Theatre, and an iChat API that will allow apps to poll iChat for presence info (i.e. are you online or not) and get contacts
  • Resolution Independence – this allows the OS and apps scale without worrying about the resolution of the monitor
  • Calendar Store – a central place that apps can query for iCal info
Who is excited about Leopard?

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jomy

Solution iChat for Windows $29 or FREE with the purchase of iSight.

October 25 2006 at 3:39 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Dave

I've had 10.5 builds for a while now and they're just great.

October 25 2006 at 11:27 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
adreas

i second that. after all the computer industry is microsofts turf. i've tried to convince some of my friends to use skype, but they don't want to deal with multiple chat clients only to video chat with me.

msn support in ichat would be truly awesome.

October 25 2006 at 6:09 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Sergio

Please a new Finder !

October 25 2006 at 5:44 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
2Shae

I agree with Wackybit...
Everybody I know uses MSN-messenger and so do I.
But I want to use iChat, but can't because it doesn't support msn, which sucks!!!

October 25 2006 at 5:30 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
wackybit

i know that Apple is trying to make iChat the next big thing......then why not add support for MSN? And Yahoo too...

I tried setting up a jabber but it didn't work, can anyone point me to some "Jabber for Dummies" type site?

October 25 2006 at 2:18 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
garion911

I'm very curious as to what improvements to Python are going to be in Leopard.. I've heard that Twisted and PyObjC are going to be included now, which is great.. Does that mean that they are including binding to all their API's?? I dont know.. I've only started on the PyObjC path..

October 25 2006 at 12:48 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
s'fen

proof read your posts much ?

Xray – DTrace based GUI tool that allows you to visually see ho*w your app is performing

October 24 2006 at 10:42 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
John Calsbeek

Resolution independence, as I'm reading it, is the ability to scale (like can be done currently using control and the mouse wheel) without anything looking like it's blown up (blocky, like old Mac OS 9 icons in the dock using magnification).

October 24 2006 at 10:28 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Henry

Does resolution independence mean I can play Halo fullscreen at 800x600 then go to another program with command tab and it will be 1024x786? If so, then that's another feature that I care about.

October 24 2006 at 9:35 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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