Mac OS X Commandments

	Work The Dock Ever flexible, the dock is a great place for applications to provide shortcuts and status. With Audion 2.5, we provide an Audion dockling so you can keep Audion hidden and control it from the dock. Even better - the track and time is displayed live in the dock!

Conquer Quartz
Transparency? Shadows? Reflections? Highlights? Thanks to Quartz, it's all possible, natively. Audion uses Quartz for each of the over 600 Audion faces.

Provide a toolbar.
Sure, it seems obvious, but toolbars are handy, and Mac OS X handles them well. A good toolbar saves a lot of menu mousing, so that's why we put the most often used Audion playlist actions into a toolbar. We even added a special set of Mac OS X specific toolbar icons, so they fit right in with the system.

Don't neglect the Library.
With Mac OS X, each user has a Home folder. A good application wil let you store extras -- plugins, faces, etc. -- inside. This way, each user can have their own set of add-ons, and the Applications folder can remain clean. Yes, Audion 2.5 allows you to put Faces and Playlists in your Library folder. Tidy!

Bundle up.
No self-respecting Mac OS X app should be any more difficult to install than dragging a single file into the Applications folder. The secret is that this one simple Audion

icon is actually a "bundle", containing plug-ins, help files, and more, all packaged up in one neat little icon. Want to uninstall? Weird. Well, just drag this single item to the trash, and it's all gone - all of it. No more hunting for support files.

Help as much as possible.
Help tags are now a standard, and applications should use them to describe unfamiliar buttons. And Apple Help has been around for ages, and looks better than ever. Use them both! Use them often! Help the user!

Resize live, and wheel scroll.
Developers, start your CarbonEvents.h! Applications should support live window resizing, and scrolling via scroll wheels. Sure, resizing might be a little slow in 10.0.4 - and Apple may not make a scrolling mouse (yet) - but these are two tiny additions that help make Audion 2.5 feel even more Mac OS X native.

Flow with Aqua.
You know it when you see it - a preference panel that was clearly brought over from mac OS 9, unchanged. Controls are bunched up, group boxes are plentiful, and fonts are too small. A good Mac OS X application should feature completely re-designed dialogs and windows, closely adhering to the new Aqua Interface Guidelines. Everything will breathe a bit easier when Aqua-fied!

Understand long filenames.
Wow. It's about time, isn't it? You can now have filenames like this one - lengthy and descriptive.

Your Mac OS X application should be able to read and write long filenames, just like Audion 2.5.

Pretty icons.
Accept no substitutions. Scalable, high-color, emotive and, for us, Iconfactory-fresh!

	Bundle up. No self-respecting Mac OS X app should be any more difficult to install than dragging a single file into the Applications folder. The secret is that this one simple Audion
		icon is actually a "bundle", containing plug-ins, help files, and more, all packaged up in one neat little icon. Want to uninstall? Weird. Well, just drag this single item to the trash, and it's all gone - all of it. No more hunting for support files.

	Understand long filenames. Wow. It's about time, isn't it? You can now have filenames like this one - lengthy and descriptive.		Your Mac OS X application should be able to read and write long filenames, just like Audion 2.5.