Re: PICT control problems [SOLVED]
Re: PICT control problems [SOLVED]
- Subject: Re: PICT control problems [SOLVED]
- From: Scott Thompson <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2006 15:39:27 -0500
On Jun 23, 2006, at 3:31 PM, John Lunt wrote:
Thanks very much for the hints.
I've been programming in C/C++ for a while, but only 2 months on
the Mac, and its taking a while to get oriented.
Learning Carbon was an interesting book, but I'm slowly realizing
that its fairly dated.
The Xcode documentation seems to spend 75% of its time explaining
how to port your code from other versions/frameworks/platforms, but
seems quite "diffused" for people who just want to write a modern
Carbon app from scratch.
I don't mind reading the headers for the APIs, but a road-map of
where to start would help (updated version of Learning Carbon anyone?)
The supplied Examples are good, but again its easy to spend an hour
digesting something to realize that its 3 years out-of-date and on
its way to the retirement home.
Any recommendations for a good beginner's (to Mac but not C++) guide?
Carbon premiered as a tool for bringing Mac OS 9 applications to Mac
OS X. In spite of the advancements that have been made in Carbon
since that time, a lot of the documentation hasn't changed.
Your experience is not unique. Many people who come to the Macintosh
platform and look to use Carbon find it difficult to separate the
"modern" way of doing things from the out-moded Mac OS 9 mechanisms.
I'm working with people at Apple, and other sites, trying to effect a
change in the Carbon documentation. I'm also hoping to write some
articles for public forums about "Modern Carbon Programming" to help
provide the roadmap you are looking for. In that vein, I would very
much like to hear about your experiences, though, what's helpful and
what's not, what you discover along the way.
I would welcome you to come over to the Carbon development list
carbon-dev
<http://lists.apple.com/mailman/listinfo/carbon-dev>
That would be a more appropriate place to explore some of the issues
you've been talking about rather than this XCode list.
Scott
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