Apple Carbon
Carbon is a procedural application programming interface for Mac OS X, and it is based on the C language. It covers file management, user interface, memory management and other system functions. Carbon was created with backwards compatibility in mind, in order to allow older applications to be ported to newer versions of Mac OS.
Advantages
- The API is accessible from a portable language, C
- Full support for the features of the OS
Disadvantages
- No support for 64-bit applications
- The API is not object oriented
Components
- File Manager
- Resource Manager
- Font Manager
- QuickDraw
- Carbon Event Manager
- HIObject
- HITheme
- HIView Manager
- Window Manager
Development tools
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