Re: Silly question. Is iTunes Cocoa application?
Re: Silly question. Is iTunes Cocoa application?
- Subject: Re: Silly question. Is iTunes Cocoa application?
- From: Finlay Dobbie <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 6 Nov 2005 15:29:07 +0000
On 06/11/05, Raffael Cavallaro <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> On Nov 6, 2005, at 3:02 AM, m wrote:
>
> > Perhaps because its development preceded the existence of Cocoa.
> > Not to mention that it needed to run under Mac OS 9.
>
> Bingo. More precisely, iTunes started life as a Mac OS Classic app
> called SoundJam MP3 which apple bought and revamped as iTunes. iTunes
> is a Carbon app for the same reason that the Finder is Carbon - they
> both date from a time when *all* mac apps were what we now call
> Carbon - they simply used the only system interfaces available, the
> old Mac OS Toolbox routines.
Bzzt. The Finder was re-written from the ground up for Mac OS X, but
was written in Carbon as a reassurance to third party developers
(Steve repeatedly used the phrase "eating our own dog-food", IIRC) who
were worried Carbon would be a hodge-podge stopgap.
-- Finlay
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