More on distinguishing Carbon from Cocoa

Jul 05, '02 11:03:45AM

Contributed by: Anonymous

There was a hint here (see the below section for the original text), but I have removed it due to the confusion it was likely to cause. Read the comments to this (and the article referenced below) for a lot of conversation on Cocoa vs. Carbon.

Personally, I don't pay much attention to the differentiation -- I just use what apps I need to use; if it does what I need it to do, I don't care if it was written in RealBasic ;-).

Sorry for the bum hint ... sometimes it happens!

-rob.

Original hint text - please ignore and read the comments...

It was interesting reading the back-and-forth arguments about whether Terminal was Carbon or Cocoa (and thus affected by the option-scrolling "feature"). There are a couple ways to tell if an app is Cocoa by using Get Info.

A Carbon app will have an check box in General Information to "Open this app in Classic environment." Also, only Cocoa apps have the "Language" option in Get Info.

Another way to check is to use a Control-click on an app. If it has an option to "See Package Contents," then it's a Cocoa app.

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