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So is anything from Apple apart from iTunes running on Carbon anymore? I wonder how many more years Apple will continue supporting that framework before they fi

by _frog 15y ago

So is anything from Apple apart from iTunes running on Carbon anymore? I wonder how many more years Apple will continue supporting that framework before they finally drop it.

ja2ke 15y ago
Has the Finder been rewritten yet? That brought up a weird thought: I wonder how much SoundJam MP code is still in today's iTunes.
- ugh 15y ago
  Yes it has. They rewrote it for Snow Leopard (but they didn’t change anything about its functionality or looks).
- akavlie 15y ago
  Yep, it was rewritten in Cocoa for Snow Leopard: http://arstechnica.com/apple/reviews/2009/08/mac-os-x-10-6.ars/18 http://arstechnica.com/apple/reviews/2009/08/mac-os-x-10-6.a...
- _frog 15y ago
  Basically everything is Cocoa in Snow Leopard with the glaring exception of iTunes and it's really starting to show, they really need to do a rewrite. Hopefully they don't call it iTunes X like they've done with the Final Cut and Quicktime rewrites.
- thought_alarm 15y ago
  Yes, the Finder UI is fundamentally now a Cocoa app. However, internally Finder still uses many of the same Carbon file management APIs that it always has, simply because there still are no reasonable equivalents in Cocoa. Many Carbon APIs are still part of the Snow Leopard SDK and are available in 64-bit for that reason; the hot key API is one example.