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Using Mac OS X Native Application Environments

Mac OS X includes three high-level native development environments that you can use for your application’s graphical user interface: Carbon, Cocoa, and Java. These environments are full-featured development environments in their own right, and you can write complete applications in any one of these environments.

In addition to these technologies, you can also use OpenGL, X11, Qt, Tcl/Tk, wxWidgets, and a number of other traditional UNIX graphics technologies when writing applications for Mac OS X. In each case, there are tradeoffs. This chapter explains these tradeoffs and shows how they affect you as a programmer as well as your users.

Contents:

Choosing a Native Application Environment
Lower-Level Graphics Technologies

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