Re: Silly question. Is iTunes Cocoa application?
Re: Silly question. Is iTunes Cocoa application?
- Subject: Re: Silly question. Is iTunes Cocoa application?
- From: John Stiles <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 06 Nov 2005 10:02:27 -0800
Finlay Dobbie wrote:
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.
As a matter of fact, older versions of Finder even used a modified
version of PowerPlant to further assuage developers. :) And System
Preferences was originally written in Java for the same "eating our own
dog-food" mentality--sadly, it was too slow/clunky and they quickly
reverted to Cocoa. I guess the Java dog food was no good.
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