September 19, 2006
Linkback: Mac API for Embedding External Content
If you are a mac OSX developer and want to embed content from others into your application's documents but still have them editable in their original application then LinkBack is for you. The LinkBack website describes their API as:
“LinkBack is an open source framework for Mac OS X that helps developers integrate content from other applications into their own. A user can paste content from any LinkBack-enabled application into another and reopen that content later for editing with just a double-click. Changes will automatically appear in the original document again when you save.”
My favourite mac drawing application, OmniGraffle, now supports LinkBack so that it is even possible to embed OmniGraffle documents within OmniGraffle itself such as described in this article.
Links
LinkBack Site
OmniGraffle
