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In this section we're going to look at the controls you use to control Mac OS X, it's applications and the data that use with them and I'm going to demonstrate very quickly some of those controls by looking at the text edit application which is an application you'll find in your applications folder, it's installed as part of the standard Mac OS X installation. Now on this particular computer I have upgraded from previous versions of the operating system and I have accumulated a wide variety of software over the years. I've gone through here and highlighted in red the applications that are included with Mac OS X Leopard and in fact in one case you will see that I've used a sort of orange highlighting here because these tools are not necessarily included in the version of Leopard that you get, it depends on which computer you buy whether the iWork applications are included. But text edit is definitely included and it provides basic word processing, so let's take a look at what's important in the interface and what you're going to see is things like pop menus, you're going to see progress controls, you're going to see segment controls like these and controls like these that set tabs. These are standard interface elements that are available to any developer and developers for the Mac have always used the standard tools provided by Apple so that you can take a look at them and understand what their going to do. That means that each application is not a brand new learning experience, its one caveat here. Some applications run on more then one platform and each platform has its own standards. The Mac standards may be the most intricate and the most sophisticated, but if half of a developer's audience runs on another platform they may choose to use an interface that is either the other platforms interface or more commonly for some of the very large vendors they have their own variation on both platforms interfaces. But this is a standard Mac OS X interface that you're seeing here and let's take look at how it's developed and what the elements of that interface are.