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Apple Developer Tools
Developer	Apple Inc.
Latest release	unknown / unknown
OS	Mac OS X
Genre	unknown
Website	Apple Developer Connection

The Apple Developer Tools are a suite of software tools from Apple to aid in making software titles for the Mac OS X platform.

Contents 1 Applet Launcher 2 Audio Unit Lab 3 Computer Hardware Understanding Development Tools 4 Core Image Fun House 5 CrashReporterPrefs 6 FileMerge 7 Help Indexer 8 icns Browser 9 Icon Composer 10 Instruments 11 IORegistryExplorer 12 Jar Bundler 13 MallocDebug 14 OpenGL Driver Monitor 15 OpenGL Profiler 16 OpenGL Shader Builder 17 PackageMaker 18 Pixie 19 Property List Editor 20 Quartz Composer 21 Repeat After Me 22 Script Editor 23 Shark 24 Spin Control 25 Thread Viewer 26 External links

A graphical interface for Sun’s Java Plug-in, which aids developers by demonstrating how Java applets perform on Mac OS X. Provides tools to adjust the performance & behavior applets in development

A graphic presentation of audio units helping software developers to examine their results. AU Lab can be used to test audio units, conduct live mixing, and playback of audio content. Audio units are controlled visually with the audio unit’s graphic interface

A set of software tools, collectively Computer Hardware Understanding Development Tools (CHUD Tools) measure software performance on Mac OS X, to aid in optimizing. Also provides hardware system benchmarks

Used in testing Core Image units, which function similar to Adobe Photoshop filters. Each has a specific action, with parameters customize the action. Showcases Core Image, a technology introduced in Mac OS X v10.4, supported by newer graphic hardware.

A developer utility for setting report parameters for Apple's Crash Reporter application.

• Basic: Shows a dialog asking the user what to do.
• Developer: Provides additional debug info and automatically shows the mail to Apple window.
• Server: Runs silent, but keeps all the logs.

Graphically compares different software versions. Similar to NEXTSTEP's Merge utility, it compares and merges different versions of a file.

A command line version is available through the Terminal application: opendiff.

Creates an index file for the Mac OS X built-in Help Viewer.

Views the resources for an .icns file, displaying the Mini, Small, Large, Huge, Thumbnail & Tile sizes in all bit-depths and masks.

Icon Composer is an icon editor that is part of the Apple Developer Tools. It does not have any editing features other than composing Apple Icon Image files. External editors must do all the image manipulation, then the results may be imported into the converter to create the finished icon.

Formerly known as xray

Instruments is a GUI for tracing framework DTrace from Sun's OpenSolaris.

Examines the Mac OS X hardware registry and offers a dozen view modes for data: unary, binary, octal, decimal, hexadecimal, ASCII, MacRoman, UTF-8 & Unicode; 8, 16, 32 & 64-bit; and big & little endian.

Java tool that aids in packaging an application’s component files into a single double-clickable application. Properties can be modified to optimize the code.

Assistance for assessing memory usage and detecting memory leaks in programs.

Assesses an applications memory usage by monitoring a user as they interact with the application, which allows MallocDebug to build a memory profile.

Real time access to the inner workings of the graphics processing unit. Runs locally or over a network using Bonjour which is less likely to interfere with the statistics it is gathering.

This tool assists developers in debugging and optimizing OpenGL usage under Mac OS X.

Supported features:

• Launch or attach to an application
• Breakpoints and execution control
• Error detection including thread safety checks
• Scripts
• Buffer views
• Resource viewing/editing
• Statistics gathering
• OpenGL call traces with stack traces and timings

An integrated environment to develop and debug OpenGL GPU programs (Shaders) under Mac OS X.

Features supported by OpenGL Shader Builder:

• Realtime entry
• Preview window with shaders applied to a textured plane, sphere or teapot
• Example shaders
• Syntax checking
• Debugging and analysis of vertex / fragment programs
• Export to Xcode

One notable feature is 'Export to Xcode'. A sample Xcode project is created with C source code to initialize OpenGL (using the GLUT library) and run the shader program.

Note that this program is no longer recommended for editing GLSL shaders as "GLSLEditorSample," available as an example program, is generally regarded as superior.

Creates application .pkg installer bundles for installing applications using the Installer application.

A magnifying glass application for magnifying small sections of the computer's screen, centered around the mouse cursor, giving the user a detailed view of the screen, as well as the pixel coordinates of the mouse. Provides several levels of zoom, "locking" the image under the mouse for closer examination, and saves the magnified image one of several formats. Helps ensure visual elements are aligned precisely.

A substitute for the Pixie app is the built-in zoom function. This can enlarge the screen up to 20 times. The default way to enlarge the screen is Command-Option-+

Edits application preference plist files.

Main article: Quartz Composer

A visual programming language for processing and rendering data. Using OpenGL, Core Image, Core Video, and other technologies to build an API and serves as a simple visual programming paradigm. Quartz Composer is a core technology of the Mac OS X. Quartz Composer creations work in any QuickTime-aware application (beginning with Mac OS X v10.4), from the Quartz Composer application, or embedded into Cocoa or Carbon applications.

Quartz Composer has many similarities to Max/MSP although its primary usage is for graphical rather than audio processing. Offers the ability to construct interactive video compositions that react to audio or MIDI signals and can be played from any QuickTime aware application.

Pierre-Olivier Latour originally developed the predecessor to Quartz Composer under the name PixelShox Studio.

Optimizes the performance of the built-in text-to-speech software for Mac OS X. Tests the operating system's phonemic translation engine, creates graphs of the generated tone, to visually adjust the intonation, and records samples for reference.

Included with Mac OS X to write and debug AppleScripts. These can be run alone as applications.

Other AppleScript and OSA language editors include:

• Smile (software), from Satimage
• Script Debugger, from Late Night Software

Used by software developers to optimize software programs on OS X. It samples software at set time intervals taking snapshots of the stack, showing the functions which require more of the application’s resources. Includes tools to analyze the data produced by a sampling run.

Spin Control is a performance tool used for monitoring hang activity in software programs. The program gets its name from the Spinning wait cursor, which is a "spinning wheel" on OS X.^[1]

Thread Viewer is a performance tool which graphically displays activity across a range of threads. It provides color-coded time-line views of thread activity and can display backtraces of activity at specific points in time.

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