Re: When does Carbon completely?

On 09.10.2009, at 11:43, Alastair Houghton wrote:
> Generally speaking, things that are part of Carbon have the word  
> "Manager" or "Toolbox" in their name (e.g. "File Manager", "Resource  
> Manager", "High Level Toolbox"...).  QuickDraw is also part of  
> Carbon, but doesn't have either of these words in its name.  The old  
> QuickTime API *might* be considered to be part of Carbon too I  
> suppose (though I tend to think of it as a separate thing).


  That's a bad rule to go by. There's Icon Services, for one thing,  
which is also Carbon. Carbon is whatever Apple defines Carbon to be.  
Many things have changed, have become Carbon or have stopped being  
Carbon (e.g. the CoreServices File Manager used to be the Carbon file  
manager, and originally started out as a few additional functions in  
Classic's File Manager).

  Let's use the definition the OP offered after his question: In his  
question, Carbon was "The high-level toolbox - the GUI stuff that  
isn't supported under 64-bit."

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