About The Edition Manager
automatically update data from numerous documents and applications.
by many different applications located on a single disk or throughout a network
of Macintosh computers. To test for the existence of the
and automatically update data, or if you want to share and automatically update
data with documents created by other applications that support the
For example, a user might want to capture sales figures and totals from
within a spreadsheet and then include this information in a word- processing
establishes a connection between these two documents. When a user modifies
the spreadsheet, the information in the word-processing document can be
automatically updated to contain the latest changes. To accomplish this, both
the spreadsheet application and the word-processing application must support
receiving high-level events, described in the Event Manager. Your application must also support Apple events to receive Apple events from the
• capture data within a document and integrate it into another document
• modify information in a document and automatically update any
document that shares its data
• share information between applications on the same computer or
across a network of Macintosh computers
similar to building cut-and-paste features into your program. Text, graphics,
spreadsheet cells, database re ports--any data that you can select, you can
make accessible to other applications that support the
discusses how to save, open, read, and write a document that shares data. In
addition, this text describes how to:
• make data accessible to other applications
• integrate data into numerous documents
• set update options
• implement borders
• modify shared data
• customize dialog boxes
This discussion also describes an advanced feature that allows applications to
share data directly from a file.