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Re: Adding menu to right side of system menu bar

On Thursday, August 28, 2003, at 07:09 PM, Mike Kluev wrote:
On 28/08/2003 09:00, Chris Hanson <email@hidden> wrote:
Similarly, I think you need to have some knowledge of Carbon, too, and
be comfortable working with Carbon APIs since there are still
technologies available in Carbon that aren't part of Cocoa.

Still? Just curious, Chris, do you think that once this is fixed
(so everything is available in pure Cocoa) all "advanced Mac OS X
developers" will be using Cocoa?

I think at that point it won't be necessary to have some Carbon knowledge to be an advanced Mac OS X developer.

Of course, that's assuming Apple ever provides 100% coverage of APIs like the Resource Manager in Cocoa. I suspect they won't bother.

Part of the reason I expect advanced Mac OS X developers to have knowledge of both Carbon and Cocoa is so they can make the best, most economic determination of when to use which set of APIs.

For instance, if you're porting a game, it may actually not make sense to try and use Cocoa for everything. Most of what you're dealing with is going to be are C APIs like OpenGL, CoreAudio, CoreGraphics, IOKit (HID Manager), and OpenPlay, and maybe some CoreFoundation; the game code you're porting is likely to be C++ code written to Microsoft's DirectX API. It's largely a toss-up as to whether to use Cocoa or Carbon for those few bits of application-style functionality you need.

But if you're developing a new productivity application that (on the Macintosh platform) only needs to support Mac OS X, I'd strongly recommend Cocoa rather than Carbon. It's your fastest route to a 1.0 release with the all features users expect of Mac OS X applications. And if you're writing a new application for Mac OS X only, I'd say go with Cocoa all the way.

-- Chris

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