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This is a list of classes by different authors that provide functionality that is not available as Cocoa Objective-C classes from Apple, for example Carbon technologies.

This is being integrated with OtherAPIs and CocoaWrappers.


Resource Manager —- Description: The Resource Manager is a Carbon manager that deals with the resource fork and as of late also resources stored in the data fork (.rsrc files).

Classes:

OFResourceFork, OFResource** - Part of OmniFoundation, Authors: OmniGroup **NDResourceFork - http://homepage.mac.com/nathan_day/, Part of NDAppleScriptObject, Author: Nathan Day *GTResourceFork - http://www.ghosttiger.com/?p=117, Author: JonathanGrynspan

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FilesystemNotifications —- Description: Filesystem notifications allows applications to know when another process made a change in the filesystem, and reflect that.

Classes:

DRFileNotificationSubscription** - http://ittpoi.com/drfns.tgz, Author: DavidRemahl **GTSubscription - http://www.ghosttiger.com/?p=132, Author: JonathanGrynspan

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Alias Manager —- Description: Alias Manager deals with aliases which represent files and can track them even as they move, change name etc.

Classes:

NDAlias** - http://homepage.mac.com/nathan_day/pages/source.xml, Author: NathanDay **BDAlias - http://bdistributed.com/Projects/BDAlias/, Author: ChrisHanson

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KeyChain Manager —- Description: The KeyChain is an API for save storage of user passwords and other authentication information.

Classes:

Fire KeyChain** - http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/fire/, Author: Fire Development Team (Mainly Colter Reed) **SecurityHICocoa.framework - Private OSX Framework, Author: Apple Engineers

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HotKeys —- Description: The Hot Keys API allows applications to catch key events that happen in other applications. This is useful if you want a particular event to activate your app, or toggle some action globally on the system

Classes:

SBHotKeyCenter** - http://rogueamoeba.com/sources/HotKeysLib3.zip, Author: Quentin D. Carnicelli ( as mentioned in this post: http://www.rogueamoeba.com/utm/posts/Random/Homegrown_Developer_Tools-2004-07-14-12-00 ) **NDHotKeyEvent - http://homepage.mac.com/nathan_day, Author: Nathan Day

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