Learning Carbon - Softcover

Apple Computer Inc

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0596001614 ISBN 13: 9780596001612

Publisher: O'Reilly Media, 2001

Synopsis

Learning Carbon is designed to get you programming right away in Carbon™, one of two APIs (Application Programmer Interfaces) Macintosh® programmers can use to write applications that run native in Mac® OS X. Using Carbon, you don't have to rewrite your Mac OS programs entirely to get them to take advantage of the new features in Mac OS X. Instead, all you have to rewrite is the 10 to 20 percent of the code that can't be translated to OS X. For C programmers, Apple's Carbon is the essential building block for applications on Mac OS X. With Carbon, you can use simple, traditional C interfaces to create world-class applications for a world-class operating system. After orienting you with a detailed tour of a Carbon application, Learning Carbon walks you through the entire process of designing and creating a complete Carbon application called Moon Travel Planner. Along the way, you'll be introduced to two pivotal development tools: Project Builder and Interface Builder. You'll learn key concepts about Carbon and Mac OS X programming, including event management, resource handling, and bundle anatomy. And you'll get direct, hands-on instruction on how to implement essential application tasks, such as managing windows, printing documents, opening and saving files, creating and responding to menu commands, providing user help, and organizing your application for easy localization in multiple countries and languages. After finishing this book, you'll be ready to start writing your own Carbon applications. Written by Apple insiders with access to engineers deeply involved in creating Mac OS X, Learning Carbon brings you information that's not available anywhere else, to get you in on the ground floor of the exciting new Mac OS X application development market.

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About the Author

This book was created by the technical writers, engineers, support specialists, and other professionals at Apple who are committed to making Mac OS X a superior platform for innovation, productivity, and enjoyment. These professionals have diligently collected, compiled, and edited the information in these books to ensure that it is a useful resource for Mac OS X developers.

Reviews

New Macintosh computers are already shipping with the updated Mac operating system, OS X. At its core are a pair of foundation libraries, Carbon and Cocoa, that ease and speed the development of new Mac applications. Apple staff wrote both books, which is good and bad. On one hand, readers know that the information is coming straight from the source, but too often publisher-penned books lack objectivity. Learning Cocoa introduces OS X's new programming aspects, e.g., Aqua, the "liquid" interface, through a series of basic programming projects. Learning Carbon provides much of the same type of information for the application program interface, also at a basic level. If your library serves a large number of Mac and student programmers, these are good tutorials to have on the shelf. But many members of those audiences have probably accessed the same information for free at developer.apple.com/macosx.
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Edition details

• Publisher: O'Reilly Media
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0596001614
• ISBN 13: 9780596001612
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 357