Haxie (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! In computing, a Haxie is a term which was coined by developer Unsanity to describe their products. It is a blend of "hack" and "Mac OS X." Unsanity uses it to refer to "hacks" that are specifically designed for use with its Application Enhancer (APE) software. These are typically small interface and functionality tweaks to the system or existing applications that work by injecting code into programs as they load. Today, many people call such system enhancement products for Mac OS X "haxies," even though not all use APE. There are actually several techniques for injecting code into Mac OS X applications. Some methods use SIMBL (the Smart InputManager Bundle Loader), are Input Manager plug-ins themselves, or use Jonathan Rentzsch's mach_inject and mach_override (now replaced by JRSwizzle) or similar code. It is also possible to do code injection as an AppleScript scripting addition (osax).