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[Aug 30 2002]
Apple Help
Apple Help provides system-wide instructional help services for virtually all aspects of Mac OS. The Help Viewer is the
main user interface component of the Apple Help technology.
A problem where AHLookupAnchor could assume incorrect character encoding for the supplied anchor has been
corrected. (r. 2953369).
The new AppleScript commands 'go back', 'go forward', and 'go home' have been added to the Help Viewer's scripting
dictionary. These commands have the same function as the buttons appearing in the Help Viewer's window.(r.
2654316). .
It is now possible to use dynamically generated tables of contents without using frames (r. 2829108). .
The Apple Help Dynamic Table of Contents feature no longer garbles Japanese AppleTitles when they are provided in
a character encoding other than UTF-8 (r. 2859757). .
Additional support for Internet-based help book content has been added (r. 2831085, 2431836, 2431821). .
The table of contents template file can now be named either "toctmpl.htm" or "toctmpl.html"(r. 2829094). .
AppleURLs can now contain partial URL references (r. 2861478). .
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AppleEvents
Apple events provide a simple inter-application and intra-application communications facility for Mac OS X applications.
The routine AESend was returning the result code -600 (process not found) in cases where the target process died
before returning a result from its handler. AESend has been changed to return error code -609
(connectionInvalid) in these cases. This change has the side effect of correcting a problem where AppleScript would
attempt to relaunch the crashed application again when AESend returned -600. (r. 2681459).
Coercing from a floating point descriptor record to an integer rounded differently depending on the target integer
type: typeSInt16 and typeSInt32 used rint-like behavior, rounding to the nearest even integer but typeUInt32 and
typeSInt64 always truncated. These coercions all now behave the same as rint. (r. 2635804).
A problem where the keyEventSourceAttr attribute was being set to kAELocalProcess instead of kAESameProcess
for events that an application targeted to itself have been corrected. Now, the keyEventSourceAttr attribute is set to
kAESameProcess. (r. 2410753).
The AppleEvent Manager has been rearchitected to take advantage of mach virtual memory APIs. While clients of