Introduction to Carbon Overview
Defines Carbon and the components of Carbon applications. Provides a whirlwind tour of Carbon APIs.
Who Should Read This Document?
You should read this document if you are new to Mac OS X and would like to write Mac OS X applications using procedural C or C++.
Organization of This Document
This document contains two chapters:
Carbon Basics briefly describes how Carbon fits into Mac OS X and the tools available to build Carbon applications.
The Carbon Factory Tour gives an overview of Carbon managers and services, including nonCarbon specialty services.
Legacy Interfaces describes managers and services that have been superseded by newer technologies. If you are a new developer, this chapter is of historical interest only.
See Also
When you are ready to explore Carbon programming, see Getting Started with Carbon to determine which documents to start reading.
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