Re: References, etc. for learning Cocoa?
Re: References, etc. for learning Cocoa?
- Subject: Re: References, etc. for learning Cocoa?
- From: Finlay Dobbie <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 19:15:20 +0100
On Wednesday, August 15, 2001, at 05:34 pm, Lloyd Sargent wrote:
Well, is the Authorization Framework considered INSIDE or OUTSIDE requ
the ObjC/Cocoa framework? AuthorizationExecuteWithPrivileges requires
many pointers (one which is a pipe of FILE *). My point is that even
when you WANT to program only in the ObjC/Cocoa framework there are
some API's that won't let you.
Security.framework's Authorization API is a procedural API that is
neither written in Obj-C or part of Cocoa.framework.
Unfortunately, there are an increasing number of reasons to have to
resort back to a procedural C API to get functionality in OS X
(LaunchServices, ResourceForks, CoreGraphics, CoreFoundation (admittedly
most of this functionality is provided by Foundation) etc etc).
-- Finlay