Development kits provide the information you need to take advantage of the latest Apple technologies. These kits are available in the Development Kits Folder on our FTP site. They can also be found on the Mac OS SDK CD-ROMs as part of the Developer CD Series.

Note: For many of these development kits, you will also need to download Disk Copy.

These development kits contain the latest interfaces and libraries for the majority of Apple's Mac OS technologies. Use these headers and libraries with your development environment.

• Universal Interfaces 3.2
• Universal Interfaces 3.2 (no Pascal or assembly)

Mac OS Technologies

• Appearance Contains information about using the improved high-level toolbox features of Mac OS 8.0.
• Apple Data Detectors 1.0.2
• Apple Game Sprockets
• Apple Guide 2.1.1
• Apple Location Manager 1.0.1
• Apple Information Access Toolkit (AIAT) 1.1
• AppleScript 1.1
• Apple Shared Library Manager While new development should be done with Code Fragment Manager, ASLM is still required for programming some aspects of Open Transport.
• AppleShare
• CFM-68K Development Kit 4.0
• Color Picker 2.1.1
• ColorSync 2.5.1
• Communications Toolbox 1.1
• Control Strip 1.1
• Contextual Menu Manager
• Display Manager 2.0.2
• Drag Manager Previously known as "Macintosh Drag & Drop", this development kit explains how to add drag and drop support to your application.
• File System Manager 1.2
• Installer_SDK 1.2.3
• Instrumentation 1.0.5 Used to profile your code and understand where you are spending time.
• Language Analysis Language Analysis Architecture (LAA) provides applications with standard interface for lexical analysis on Mac OS.
• Mac OS Runtime for Java In addition to the final MRJ 2.0.1 SDK, you can also download the MRJ 2.1 Early Access software and SDK.
• Multiprocessing
• Network Services Location Network Services Location allows you to register and search for services on a network in a protocol independent fashion.
• Open Transport Contains SDKs for application, driver, and protocol stack development.
• OT/PPP The SDK for controlling OT/PPP and ARA 3.x.
• PC Card Manager 2.0 and 3.0 Contains both the PC Card Manager 2.0 (for the PowerBook 520, 540, 190, 5300 and 1400 families) and PC Card Manager 3.0 (for all subsequent PowerBooks).
• PCI Driver 2.0 Information on how to write a PCI device driver.
• Speech Recognition Manager 1.5.1
• Speech Synthesis Manager 1.5
• Text Encoding Converter (TEC) Text Encoding Converter allows you to convert text from one encoding to another, including Unicode.
• Telephone Manager 3.0
• Thread Manager 2.1
• Translation Manager This development kit contains documentation and samples for the Translation Manager, included in the system as part of Macintosh Easy Open.
• Universal Serial Bus (USB) 1.1f3 Information on writing Mac OS USB device drivers.
• Word Services Development Kit 1.0.8

QuickTime

You can get SDKs for the following technologies from the QuickTime developer area.

• QuickTime
• QuickTime VR
• QuickDraw 3D
• Sound Manager

You can download the QuickTime IC SDK from this site.

Miscellaneous

• Apple Color OneScanner There is no current development being done on the Apple Color OneScanner.
• AppleSearch. There is no current development being done on AppleSearch.
• Installer SDK Documentation, tools and sample code for writing installer scripts that work with the Apple Installer and Apple Upgrader.
• QuickTake Digital Camera There is no current development being done on the QuickTake camera software.
• QuickTake for Windows 1.5 There is no current development being done on the QuickTake camera software.

Apple Information Access Toolkit (AIAT) 1.1

Appearance 1.0.3

Apple Game Sprockets

ColorSync 2.5.1 SDK

Contextual Menu Manager 1.0.3

Installer SDK 1.2.3

MRJ 2.1 Early Access 3 Software

MRJ 2.1 Early Access 3 SDK

Multiprocessing

Network Services Location 1.0 SDK

Text Encoding Converter 1.4

Translation Manager

Universal Interfaces 3.2

Universal Interfaces 3.2 (no Pascal or assembly)

Universal Serial Bus (USB) 1.1f3

Highlight Technologies

Universal Interfacescontains the latest interfaces and libraries for the majority of Apple's Mac OS technologies. Use these interfaces and libraries with your development environment.

Appearance contains information about using the Appearance Manager, introduced in Mac OS 8.0.

Apple Data Detectors enables your computer to recognize and then act on certain types of data in your documents.

Apple Information Access Toolkit (AIAT) provides intelligent searching capabilities.

Instrumentation 1.0.5 to profile your code and understand where you are spending time, use this Development Kit

Online Utilities

• Report Bugs Here
  Use this section to report the bugs you find.
• Creator File Type Registration
  Register your unique Creator/File type here.

Apple Cross-Platform System Technologies

• QuickTake for Windows 1.5 There is no current development being done on the QuickTake camera software.
• QuickTime for Windows 2.1.2

OpenDoc

• OpenDoc
• OpenDoc International
• SOMobjects for Mac OS 2.0.8

Obsolete

These development kits were issued in the past, but are no longer suitable for new development.

• AppleTalk This kit contains the 'classic' AppleTalk Connection and AppleTalk Administrator software. This software is obsolete, replaced by Open Transport.
• AppleTalk Wide Area This kit contains the SNMP MIB for the AppleTalk Update-based Routing Protocol..
• Mac PAP Client Interface 2.0 The 'classic' AppleTalk Printer Access Protocol client interface. We recommend that you use the OT native interface for PAP.
• MacTCP 2.0.6 The original Mac OS TCP/IP interface. We recommend that you use the Open Transport interface.
• MacSNMP 1.1.1
• Network SW Installer 1.5.1
• QuickTime 2.5 This SDK has been replaced by the SDK downloadable from the QuickTime developer area.
• QuickDraw 3D This SDK has been replaced by the SDK downloadable from the QuickTime developer area.
• Sound Manager This SDK has been replaced by the SDK downloadable from the QuickTime developer area.

Obsolete and Unsupported

These development kits were issued in the past, but are no longer a recommended or supported technology. Apple provides these development kits for historical purposes only. Developer Technical Support does not answer questions on these technologies.

• MacODBC 2.1
• PC Card Manager 1.0 We recommend PC Card Manager 2.0 or later instead.
• Obsolete-Unsupported contains development kits for Inter•Poll, MIDI Management Tools, and XTND.
• QuickDraw GX
• QuickTime Conferencing