= Mac OS X Tips =
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The following tips and tutorials for Mac OS X users, provided by Quicktime movie media are provided by People/EricWing:

=== The following are a series of screencasts that demonstrate how to get started with OpenSceneGraph on Mac OS X: ===
''(These videos are also mirrored on [http://www.youtube.com/user/ewmailing "YouTube"], though YouTube currently downsamples the quality quite a bit making them hard to see.)''

''The following videos are encoded with H.264.''

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[http://www.openscenegraph.org/files/Tutorials/MacOSXTips/01_HowToInstallOSG_FastVersion.mov How to Install OSG (Fast Version)]
 * This demonstrates how to install OpenSceneGraph. This version is intended for users already familiar with Mac OS X. (1:04)

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[http://www.openscenegraph.org/files/Tutorials/MacOSXTips/01_HowToInstallOSG_LongVersion.mov How to Install OSG (Long Version)]
 * This demonstrates how to install OpenSceneGraph from the binary package. This version is intended for users who may not be very familiar with Mac OS X. (5:04)

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[http://www.openscenegraph.org/files/Tutorials/MacOSXTips/02_CreateFirstOSGProgram.mov Create your first OSG program]
 * This demonstrates how to create your first OpenSceneGraph application using our OSG Xcode template. (3:07) ''(Leopard users: Apple has moved the template directory. See [http://www.openscenegraph.org/projects/osg/wiki/Support/PlatformSpecifics/MacOSX10.5 "Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard Notes"] for the new path.)''

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[http://www.openscenegraph.org/files/Tutorials/MacOSXTips/03_HowToCommandLineBuild.mov How to build from the command line]
 * This demonstrates how to build an OpenSceneGraph program using the command line (Terminal.app). (4:24)

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[http://www.openscenegraph.org/files/Tutorials/MacOSXTips/04_HowToCreateAppBundle.2.mov How to create an App bundle]
 * This demonstrates how to create an application that is completely self-contained and is drag-and-droppable/relocatable. Frameworks, !PlugIns, and Resources are embedded in the .app bundle, thus avoiding the need for installers and avoiding issues like dll-hell. There is also a quick demonstration on how to enable Universal Binary building at 15:46. Though done in the context of OSG, these are general Mac OS X concepts and suitable for anybody doing development on Mac OS X. (17:12)

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=== Additional References ===
See [http://www.openscenegraph.org/projects/osg/wiki/Support/PlatformSpecifics/OSX "Mac OS X"] for general OSG/Mac OS X information.

See [http://www.openscenegraph.org/projects/osg/wiki/Support/PlatformSpecifics/MacOSX10.5 "Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard Notes"] for OSG/Leopard specific information.

See [http://www.openscenegraph.org/projects/osg/wiki/Support/PlatformSpecifics/Objective-C "Objective-C/C++"] for basic information on Objective-C and Objective-C++.


For a general tutorial on how to create your own embed-able frameworks, check out Jonathan ‘Wolf’ Rentzsch's "Embedded Cocoa Frameworks" Quicktime movie '''''(offsite)'''''.
 *  [http://rentzsch.com/cocoa/embeddedFrameworks Embedded Cocoa Frameworks]