Is it possible to develop carbon application in objective-C, moreover what if i don't have a power PC based mac and i have an intel-based mac, can i still develop applications for Carbon?
Regards.
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You can definitely develop Carbon applications on an Intel Mac. Right now the biggest restriction on Carbon is that you cannot compile to a 64 bit binary. Additionally, new OS X features may or may not be available to Carbon programs.
Carbon seems to be here to stay for a while longer at least; one significant issue keeping it around is that a lot of it is available for Windows and therefore needed for iTunes development. A lot of people think that it will me deprecated in one or two more major OS X versions, though.
Coxy
2009-09-11 08:29:22
but my main question is that is it possible to program in objective-C?
maddy
2009-09-11 08:31:38
Yes as Carbon is a C language binding and objective C is a superset of C. However why would you Cocoa is the way going forward as Apple are not providing the 64 bit version of Carbon. (and can be argued a better way)
Mark
2009-09-11 09:30:07
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Yes you can. Xcode 3.1 has templates for Carbon apps and will generate code for Intel and ppc.
Xcode 3.2 (under OSX 10.6) does not have the Carbon templates but will generate code for 32 bit PPC see email re new Xcode email from apple on apple developers list As setfanB says why use Carbon now any new app should start with Cocoa
Mark
2009-09-11 08:30:41
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You can, but it would be no different from programming in straight C, since Carbon is a C-based API. (In fact, you would be programming in straight C, and pretending the Objective-C additions don't exist.)
Moreover, Carbon is doomed. Someday, it will not exist in then-current Mac OS X. Then your application will not run. Why not use Cocoa? Then your application will not be relying on a doomed framework. Besides, I tell you from experience that Cocoa is much easier than Carbon.
Peter Hosey
2009-09-11 11:22:59
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thank you very much , i have choosed to develop cocoa application for mac/iphone. i understand the problems with carbon, the reason i wanted to program in carbon was that of C.
Regards.
maddy
2009-09-11 12:05:39
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You can still program in C even if you're writing a Cocoa application. Bear in mind that Objective-C is still a superset of C, so as long as you have whatever minimal application code needed to bootstrap (such as the templates that come with XCode) then you can write whatever C functions that you want.
(Don't know why you'd want to do that though ...)
AlBlue
2009-09-19 17:15:50