Inside Taligent Technology Table of Contents

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Introduction to Taligent technology

Foreword

Chapter 3

A human interface for organizations

A human interface scenario: A department's common area
Extending the desktop metaphor: Application-centered approach; Document-centered approach; Limitations of the desktop metaphor
Task-Centered Computing: Extending familiar concepts; Removing barriers to communication
People, Places, and Things: People; Places; Things
Menus, windows, and controls: Menus; Windows; Controls
CSpace a collaborative space
Integration with host user environments: Desktop integration; Portability and intraplatform consistency; Integration of Places

Chapter 4

Taligent market development

Market overview: A new class of enterprise solutions; Why "CommonPoint"?; Target industries; Taligent marketing advantages
Deployment of Taligent products: Deployment by investors; Deployment by Taligent
Commercial CommonPoint software: An opportunity for long-term growth; Product design and marketing
Benefits of CommonPoint development: New markets for commercial developers; Faster development for corporate developers; Support for hardware innovation

Chapter 5

Development tools and approaches

Development tools strategy: Cross-platform development; Additional languages and development environments; Development tools and the component software market
cpProfessional: cpProfessional problem domain; cpProfessional tools and capabilities; cpProfessional extensibility
cpConstructor
Getting started as a Taligent developer: Adopting object-oriented technology; Lessons learned by early adopters; Documentation, training, and technical support; For more information

Part II CommonPoint system architecture

Chapter 6

Introduction to the CommonPoint application system

CommonPoint overview: Basic system statistics; Application frameworks; System Services
Host requirements
Taligent conventions: Using C++ to write Taligent software; Reading class diagrams

Chapter 7

Desktop frameworks

Overview of the Desktop frameworks: Document frameworks; Presentation framework; User Interface frameworks; Workspace frameworks
Representing data: Compound documents; Persistence of the data; Location of the data; Preserving the data
Changing data: Selections and commands; Streaming of selections and commands; Address-space independence; Incremental commands
Exchanging data: A copy-and-paste scenario; Supplying multiple types of models
Connecting and navigating among components: Using links and anchors; Persistence and referential integrity of anchors
Presentations: Views and the Views framework; Notifications; Interactions; Flow of control

Chapter 8

Embeddable Data Types

Text Editing framework: Standard Text Editing document; Standard Text Editing features; Standard Text Editing menus
Graphics Editing framework: The Graphics Editing framework and the Desktop frameworks; A typical graphics-editing document
Time Media User Interface framework
Document Data Access framework

Chapter 9

Graphics

Graphics architecture
2-D and 3-D Graphics features: High-level geometries; IEEE double precision (64-bit) floating point arithmetic; Device-independent coordinate systems; Graphics and geometry classes; Integrated 2-D and 3-D graphics
2-D and 3-D Graphics classes: Graphics naming conventions; 2-D Graphics classes; 3-D Graphics classes
2-D and 3-D Geometry classes
Drawing ports
Graphics Devices framework
Font Support
Color: Colors and color profiles; Color space classes; Color matching
3-D Graphics code examples: Drawing a torus; Transforming a torus; Coloring a torus; Creating a more complex graphic

Chapter 10

Text

Basic Text Services and Line Layout: Storing and manipulating multilingual text data; Displaying static text; Displaying editable text; Font Support; Tokens
Text Input and Output: How the typing configuration handles typing input; Virtual keyboards; Transliterators; Input Method framework

Chapter 11

Time media

Time media concepts: Media players and media sequences; Synchronizing media players
Audio: Audio players; Audio sequences; Audio types
MIDI: MIDI players; MIDI sequences
Video: Movie players; Movie sequences
Telephony: Telephone lines; Telephone calls; Telephone line features; Handsets

Chapter 12

Other Application Services

Interoperability Services: OpenDoc and OLE compatibility; Data Translation framework; Text and graphics converters
Printing and scanning: Overview of the printing process; Document Printing; Basic Printing; Print Jobs; Printing Devices framework; Scanning framework
Localization Services: Locales; Language-sensitive support services

Chapter 13

Enterprise Services

Data Access framework: SQL Data Access class architecture; Record Sources; Document Data Access framework; Object Access framework
Concurrency control and recovery
System Management: Licensing Services; Authentication Services; Software Distribution Services; Software Asset Management Services; Management Agent framework
Messaging Services: Support for existing standards; Support for filtering agents
Remote Object Call Services
Implementing Enterprise Services in early releases

Chapter 14

Foundation Services

Notification framework: Key elements of notification; Notification classes; Optimizing using batched notification; Sharing a notifier implementation; Synchronous versus asynchronous notification; Remote notification
Identifiers: Properties; Attributes; Tokens
Object Storage: Data Structures and Collections; Streams and Persistence; Archives; Safe Pointers
Testing: Overview of the Test framework; Test framework classes; Creating a test; Combining tests
Numerics: Numerics interfaces; The computational model; Numerics concepts; Taligent Numerics features; Portability and performance

Chapter 15

OS Services

Communications: Communications features; Communications models; Communications architecture; ROC Services; Service Access framework; Message Streams
File System: File System classes; Flattening and resurrecting file system entities
Time Services: Time Services classes; Syncable clocks
Object Runtime Services: Heap management and storage allocation; Exceptions; Shared libraries; Metadata
Microkernel Services: Tasking model; Synchronization; System Shutdown framework
Object-Oriented Device Driver Model (OODDM): A new approach to writing device drivers; Overview of the OODDM architecture; OODDM frameworks

Glossary

Bibliography

Books and articles: Object-oriented technology; Programming with C++; Frameworks and related topics; Text and graphics; Computer industry
Periodicals and newsletters
Associations and conferences

Index