Thing Detective 1.0 (Mac)

Overview:

Thing Detective is a powerful new utility that provides detailed information about components on MacOS computers. It’s an indispensable tool that can be used to help develop and debug components, to learn how to use the components provided by QuickTime and the MacOS operating system, and to determine what component capabilities are available on MacOS computers. With Thing Detective, you can: Get a comprehensive list of the components installed on a MacOS computer Filter the component list to display only components with a particular type, subtype, and/or manufacturer Determine what processor a component has been compiled for Get the name, icon, information, version, and reference constant of a component Locate the file that a component was registered from, and get its file information Examine the component (‘thng’) resource of a component Determine whether a component is an alias, and locate the component that it’s aliased to Display a component’s resource map Query components for supported flags and request codes Determine whether a component was registered from a file or from memory View online technical documentation about component types

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