When will Carbon apps have parity with Cocoa?
When will Carbon apps have parity with Cocoa?
- Subject: When will Carbon apps have parity with Cocoa?
- From: Matt Gough <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2002 14:02:12 +0100
Having played around with the Accessibility APIs for a couple of days, it
seems that they show a lot of promise for various functionality I'd like to
implement in our app. However, due to the fact that a lot of stuff doesn't
currently work in Carbon apps, I am a bit loathe to add a bunch of features
that will only be available to users of Cocoa apps for the foreseeable
future.
Is anyone at Apple willing (or able) to give some kind of timeline when
carbon apps will catch up. If it is only a matter of weeks, then I don't
mind implementing stuff now for Cocoa-only and letting the Carbon apps come
into line with a future update to 10.2. If it is many months (i.e. OS X
10.3), then I won't bother since most of the 'big' apps are all carbon.
The actual things I want to be able to get to are:
A window's kAXDocumentAttribute. (This surely can't be too difficult to
implement, since it is just a case of updating SetWindowProxyFSSpec and
SetWindowProxyAlias to set the attribute)
Be able to set kAXMiniaturizedAttribute.
(It would also be nice if AXUIElementIsAttributeSettable was correct in
saying that this isn't currently settable for Carbon windows.)
Be able to set kAXMainAttribute.
That's all for now
Matt Gough
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