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24 hours of Leopard: Core Animation

by Scott McNulty (RSS feed) on Oct 25th, 2007

Feature: Core Animation

How it works: Core Animation is a new framework in Leopard. This framework makes it easy for developers to harness the graphics power in OS X for their own applications. Using layers, a developer can animate a number of different objects of different types (including video, images, and OpenGL renderings) and apply different effects to each. Core Animation does the heavy lifting of actually figuring out what needs to happen in each frame (developers set the start, the end, and some key frames and Core Animation does the rest). Core Animation is going to usher in some astounding new UI on the Mac (Time Machine is a great example of what is to come).

Who will use it: Developers will use it directly, but only who uses apps built on the Core Animation framework will benefit from it.

Tags: 24-hours-of-leopard, core-animation, leopard

Filed under: Software, Odds and ends, Leopard, Developer

Delicious Library 2 preview

by Mike Schramm (RSS feed) on Oct 20th, 2007



Scott Stevenson has posted a very short but sweet preview of Delicious Library 2, due out sometime after Leopard hits next week (according to Wil Shipley, it may be as late as February). The already beautiful program (that coined a generation) looks better than ever, and it's made better, we're told, by all the great stuff going into Leopard, from Core Animation to the new Quicklook (you'll be able to drag books and DVDs out of the library to make little files of their own, which will then be viewable in Quicklook itself). And there's other touches, too-- selected items glow, when you delete a book it "shatters," and details don't just appear, they "pop into view" like on the iPhone.

And there are updates behind the graphics, too-- a faster barcode scanner, some super seekrit features (that is "worth the purchase price" for parents-- ??), and sharing features, which means finally, this program has a real purpose other than just staring at the stuff you own. You'll be able to share your collection with friends and even strangers-- can't wait to see how that works.

Sounds like fun. Stevenson says he wants Delicious Library 2 to set the benchmark for the first generation of Leopard apps, so we can definitely expect big, shiny stuff from these folks. Please, Delicious, show us how it's done.

Tags: barcode, books, core-animation, delicious-generation, delicious-library, delicious-library-2, dvds, leopard, scott-stevenson

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