the default properties. In this chapter, you learn about the
properties required of Mac OS X applications. It walks you through the process of configuring these properties
in Currency Converter. You learn what changing these various properties does when viewing information
about the application. Finally, you learn how to give an application its own icon to set it apart from other
applications.
includes the application's primary and secondary version numbers, and the icon that the Finder and the Dock
use to represent it. The file that stores these details is known as the information property list file (named
bundles, bundles can be represented as files instead of folders in the Finder; these bundles are known as
packages. An application bundle stores the executable files and resources that make up an application.
Although it's more correct to refer to application bundles as application packages because they're always
shown to users as single files in the Finder, this chapter adopts the term application bundle instead of
application package. For more information on bundles and packages, see Bundle Programming Guide.
build version number, release version number, copyright notice, application name, and application-icon
filename.
application, a relatively tedious task. The application-identifier property specifies a string Mac OS X
uses to identify an application. This property does not identify a specific application bundle in the
filesystem or a particular version of the application. In normal conditions, users don't see application
identifiers.