Hello. I am new to Mac OSX or to any Mac for that reason, so please be patient. I am trying to determine similarities and differences between installing applications on Windows and MacOSx. I know that when I develop application for Windows, I can use registry to access information from my application or to look up information about some other application already installed on the user computer. I can also setup Start Menu or Desktop shortcut (links) to allow user to start my application without navigating to application's root folder. Is this possible on MacOSX or 9? I know that MacOSX is unix based, therefore, if I need to determine if a specific application was installed, do I need to look in any specific file? Also, is there something similar to Win shortcuts or links in MacOS, if there is, then where can I look up information on how to first locate needed shortcuts and then modify them? Thanks in advance.
Max
Max