Re: OT/Newbie: Book/reading recommendations ?
Re: OT/Newbie: Book/reading recommendations ?
- Subject: Re: OT/Newbie: Book/reading recommendations ?
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 13:31:37 +0100
Hi Hugh,
In your case, especially not being familiar with either the Carbon or
Cocoa API, I think it would be faster and easier for you to go with
Cocoa. Obj-C looks a bit strange at first, but it isn't hard to pick
up. The Cocoa API is fantastic.
Other than in forced situations (such as the Audiounit interface), I
think it would be correct to say people who use the Carbon API for
interface development are people familiar with traditional Mac OS APIs
but not familiar with Obj-C/Cocoa, making ports of their OS 9 apps to
X, or maintaining the same/similar code base between their OS 9 and X
applications.
O'Reilly's books on Cocoa are fine. You can also go through the Vermont
Recipes available online:
http://www.stepwise.com/Articles/VermontRecipes/index.html
And of course going through the sample code available with the
developer tools is very helpful.
Hope this helps!
-- John
Hi,
I'm brand new to OS X programming but have been doing C on embedded and
Linux systems for many years. My principle interest in OS X
programming
is writing a GPL'd realtime MIDI processor/patch management system for
use
with my keyboard rig.
I've been using a combination of the source to Joshua Schrier's
transposon
app as a tutorial and the Apple tutorials/docs to get acquainted with
the
API. This has been OK for the MIDI side of things but I'm (not
surprisingly) finding that there are many things I still need to learn
the
"OS X Way" (example - how to store user preferences)
I'm fairly sure I'll be doing this as a Carbon app rather than Cocoa
as I
have no Objective C experience and expect the GUI to be fairly
straightforward.
Briknell's "Carbon Programming" seems to get good reviews but before I
plonk down my cash I thought I'd solicit opinions from the folk here on
other options.
I realise this is somewhat off topic so am happy to receive responses
off
list and post a summary if appropriate.
Cheers,
Hugh
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