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Let's take a look at the buttons that you may encounter in the Mac OS X interface. What I am going to do in this section is to show you the buttons that are available to developers and I'm using a tool that the developers use called the Coco simulator which is accessible from the interface builder application which is part of the X-code tools. If you want to develop Mac OS X applications using the tools that Apple uses you can use X-code as your development environment. X-code is powerful enough to in fact develop Mac OS X itself as well as the major applications as well as minor applications and you get Mac OS X's development tool X-code by inserting your Mac OS X installation cd or DVD and clicking on the option to install other products. Because X-code is delivered on the disk with every copy of Mac OS X. So you have this, you may not have it installed you can install it if you want from the DVD and then you can use interface builder to see what the tools are that are available. A button of any kind has an immediate effect on the interface, when you find a button on an interface you can click it unless it is dimmed, if it's dimmed it's not clickable. But if the button is in its normal state, then you can click and something should immediately happen. It's very important with buttons. This is the standard button, you'll notice when I click on it it's highlighted. We have a square button here, a round rect button, notice how the corners are changed, recessed buttons, a button with texture and a rounded cornered rect textured button. So these are the normal buttons that you find in the interface. Over here you have rectangular buttons with little beveled edges as I hold down the mouse you'll see up here and at the bottom on both of these that I have a little bit of a bevel, it's a different type of look then the rounded buttons. These are used often for selecting choices such as in the page set up dialog, this will let you choose whether it's a landscape or a portrait display and you also sometimes will encounter round buttons. The difference here is that you're not going to be able to put text in the button, this is something that will do something, all of these buttons have text in them that in one way or another explain what clicking on that button will do. This button oddly enough is a help button it's a standard help button applications are encouraged to use this and to put it in the same place through out their application, it's usually in a lower corner of a window, maybe in an upper corner, its generally not in the middle of a window. This is a disclosure triangle and this is a disclosure button, notice as I click on them they change. The disclosure triangle is next to something such as a line of text and when you click it here you get more information about that you'll see this in the list view, in the finder, and we'll talk about that when we look at it. Here this is next to something and this may change dropping down more information, you see this in the file save dialog where you can go from a simplified save dialog to a larger one this enlarges the window, this provides usually more information about one line of text and this enlarges the window. So these are buttons that have immediate actions.