When the user opens the document again, your application can read the information in the resource and restore the window to its previous location. By using the Scrap Manager, you can allow uen documents created by your application and documents created by other applications. Help balloons are rounded-rectangle windows that contain explanatory information for the user. With tips pointing at the objects they annotate, help balloons look like the bubbles used for dialog in comic strips. You can use the List Manager to create one-column or multicolumn lists.
Lists are useful for allowing the user to select one or more items from a group of items.
By using Icon Utilities routines, you can automatically draw the icon from an icon family that is best suited for the current bit depth of the monitor. Components can provide your application with various services such as image compression or decompression services. You can also provide services to other applications by creating your own component. Macintosh Easy Open uses the Translation Manager to automatically provide some translation services for your application. Optionally, you can enhance your application's interaction with Macintosh Easy Open or provide your own translation services.