Mac OS Components
Mac OS accumulated a great variety of component types:
- Within QuickTime, there were image codecs, media handlers, media data handlers, video digitizer drivers, file format importers and exporters, and many others.
- The Sound Manager moved to a predominantly component-based architecture in version 3.0: sound output devices were represented as components, and there were also component types for mixing multiple channels, converting between different sample rates and sample sizes, and encoding and decoding compressed formats.
- AppleScript introduced the concept of scripting languages implemented as components.
- ColorSync implemented different colour-matching methods as components.
- QuickDraw GX "font scalers" were renderers for the different font formats.
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