On May 28, 2008, at 11:08 AM, Jens Alfke wrote:
On 28 May '08, at 1:04 AM, Steve Harrison wrote:
On another thread on the Apple Mailing Lists, Alexander Cohen said
that there is an API in Leopard for CoverFlow (see archived post
here: "http://www.cocoabuilder.com/archive/message/cocoa/2007/11/6/192424
"):
Yeah, but that's private API. I wouldn't use that in a serious app,
as it could change incompatibly or be taken out in any future OS
release. (The former is quite likely: a primary reason why
frameworks or classes don't get made public is that Apple hasn't
polished their APIs yet. Making something public involves committing
to supporting binary compatibility with it, which really limits what
you can do with the API, and Apple doesn't take that lightly.)
I agree with you on that. The only reason i would see for using them
is that the CoverFlow Private API is pretty much interchangeable with
the ImageKit Browser API. This does at least show some sort of
consistency and might point to the IKImageFlow being made public soon
(I hope).
AC
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