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Re: Apple Announces Final Cut Pro X

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Post by akavlie » Wed, Apr 13, 2011, 5:39 AM UTC

ja2ke wrote: post #19

_frog wrote: post #14

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.

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.

Yep, it was rewritten in Cocoa for Snow Leopard:

http://arstechnica.com/apple/reviews/2009/08/mac-os-x-10-6.a...

Re: Apple Announces Final Cut Pro X

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Post by _frog » Wed, Apr 13, 2011, 8:39 AM UTC

ja2ke wrote: post #19

_frog wrote: post #14

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.

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.

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.

Re: Apple Announces Final Cut Pro X

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Post by thought_alarm » Wed, Apr 13, 2011, 9:43 AM UTC

ja2ke wrote: post #19

_frog wrote: post #14

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.

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.

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.