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- Package Overview
- The different components of OOFILE.
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- Core database
- Major database classes and backends.
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- Persistent fields inheritance
- Including some portions linked to a rough reference manual.
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- GUI Integration classes
- How OOFILE links your database to an application framework.
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- Description as Patterns
- Describes some OOFILE internals in terms of the GOF Patterns,
and our own efforts.
(See "Design Patterns" by Gamma, Helm, Johnson & Vlissides)
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- OOFILE over c-tree Plus
- Summary of the main features OOFILE adds to enhance c-tree Plus.
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- Comparison to the ODMG-93 Standard
- Describes OOFILE features side by side with ODMG definitions and
discusses some future compatability improvements.
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- Small Software Engineering
- The Diary-Driven approach we use to manage development.
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- AppMaker
- Using the AppMaker code generator program on Macintosh and how
OOFILE applications can be automatically generated for the PowerPlant
framework.
- GUI Integration Philosophy
- The common philosophy to integrating OOFILE into application frameworks
- GUI Events
- Use Cases (from Jacobson) describe sequences of actions in a typical
GUI database application.
- GUI Customisation
- The points at which you can easily customise gui integration behaviour
by overriding virtual methods.
- PowerPlant Framework
- The (Macintosh) MetroWerks PowerPlant GUI integration, and the
basis for our future GUI integrations.
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- Installation Summary
- Steps to installing OOFILE and the accompanying c-tree Plus package.
- Quick Start
- Quick guide to creating and using a database for people who know
a bit about database concepts.
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- Field Types
- The field types and operations, including standalone types such
as oofDate that can be used without a database.
- Searching
- The different ways to declare a search, including combinatorial
expressions, wildcards and how to optimise searches with indexed
compound fields.
- Sorting
- A quick description of how sorting works in OOFILE, including
multiple field sorts and the automatic dependency-based resorting.
- Relationships
- How relationships work between database classes (instead of plain
C++ pointers) - an overview and details.
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- ANSI Gotchas
- IOStreams, the ANSI standard and Metrowerks CodeWarrior Pro.
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- Debugging Techniques
- How to use the OOF_Debug and OOF_SmartHeap #defines to ensure
the safety of your database.
- Gotchas
- A list of a couple of minor problems that you can run into and
the error messages likely to be seen. Running in OOF_Debug mode
should help avoid or diagnose most mistakes you can make.
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- Database size limits
- Just the limits on numbers of classes, indices etc.
- Dependencies
- Describes the general dependency mechanism in OOFILE which you
can use for your own dependencies, as well as its use by dbTable
and other classes.
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- Programming Conventions
- An important read to understand the naming conventions and what hints
the names of parameters and methods provide.
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- Multi-user issues
- How the c-tree multi-user capabilities are used in OOFILE.
- Cross-platform issues
- A few minor issues in going cross-platform. Read this document
to see how to get the most efficient space packing of your objects
and to be sure that your database can be copied to other platforms.
- c-tree Changes and Issues
- A couple of minor c-tree source code changes are required for
Mac programmers writing GUI applications. Also describes how OOFILE
makes use of c-tree features.
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- Questions and Answers
- Some interesting questions from user correspondence.
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- OOFILE release test plan
- The test plan followed in validating an OOFILE release.
- Description as Patterns
- Describes some OOFILE internals in terms of the GOF Patterns,
and our own efforts.
(See "Design Patterns" by Gamma, Helm, Johnson & Vlissides)
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