This volume provides an understanding of PowerPlant classes and their interrelationships, discusses PowerPlant objects - how they are created, how they are recognized by PowerPlant programs and how they are used. The book uses one large example program, rather than a collection of small programs, to effectively illustrate the scope and complexity of a realistic Macintosh program and provide a comprehensive example of how a PowerPlant program can be structured. It is designed for C++ programmers who want to develop object-oriented software applications for the Macintosh and Power Macintosh, and includes a CD-ROM containing source code for all of the programming examples in the book and Metrowerks CodeWarrior Lite to run the examples.