On 9 Apr 2009, at 02:03, "Sean McBride" <s...@rogue-research.com> wrote:
On 4/7/09 9:04 PM, Jo Phils said:
As for not using Carbon I suppose there's no reason I can't use
it. I
was just thinking with Finder going away from Carbon and since I'm
just
learning Cocoa I was trying to avoid it if I could. But if it's the
best way I can use it...
Carbon is an overloaded term, it means many things all at once.
Yes. This has confused me a lot.
I would propose to use only the term "Carbon application" as defined in:
"Carbon application" ::= app whose main.c file is very big (more
than 5000 characters) and contains InstallApplicationEventHandler().
as opposed to:
"Cocoa application" ::= app with a very small main.m (less than 100
characters) which contains NSApplicationMain().
And NOT to use the term "Carbon" (other than in "Carbon application"),
but to use the term "C-function" instead.
Like:
"To get the file size one can use some methods in NSFileManager, or,
if one needs more detailed information (e.g. physical size, sizes of
resource fork), one can use the C-functions documented in the File
Manager Reference (defined in Files.h), which are part of the
CoreServices.framework."
To give an example of my confusion about the term "Carbon": The
aforementioned "File Manager Reference" contains this sentence: "In
Carbon, this name must be a leaf name; the name cannot contain a
semicolon."
Or: "the Carbon File Manager does not return the number of files in
this field"
Neither of these two sentences makes any sense for me.
A somehow unrelated question:
What would be a rational reason to create a new "Carbon application"
today?
Kind regards,
Gerriet.
P.S. Does anyone have a link to the official Apple definition of
"Carbon application" ?
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