Introduction to Setting Up Your Carbon Application to Use the Services Menu
Explains how to make a Carbon application share functionality with other applications.
Who Should Read This Document?
This document describes how application services work, shows some typical Services menus, and provides instructions on how you can use services in your application. You should read this document if you are an application developer and want to provide your application’s services to other applications or make services from other applications available to your application.
Before you read this document, you should be familiar with information property lists. You need to know what they are and how to add properties to a list. Carbon developers should also know how to write and install Carbon event handlers.
Organization of This Document
This document is organized as follows:
Application Services Concepts , discusses the types of services, the Services menu, services properties, and what happens when a service is invoked.
Application Services Tasks , provides instructions on how to set up your application to use services provided by other applications and how to provide your services to other applications.
Carbon Events for Services , describes the Carbon event classes, kinds, and event parameters defined for services events.
See Also
Handling Carbon Events in Carbon Events & Other Input Documentation describes how to implement Carbon events in your application.
Learning Carbon , available through O’Reilly and Associates , contains information on writing and using Carbon event handlers as well as information on how to set up and use property lists.
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