[Pythonmac-SIG] Macintosh modules/Carbon/documentation

Ronald Oussoren ronaldoussoren at mac.com
Sat Mar 31 17:01:31 CEST 2007


On 31 Mar, 2007, at 5:41, Dethe Elza wrote:

> On 30-Mar-07, at 4:49 PM, Jack Jansen wrote:
>
>> Carbon itself should be fine. It is indeed undocumented within the
>> Python documentation, but the transformation from the official
>> Apple C documentation is pretty clear (I think).
>
> Is there anywhere that this mapping is specified?  I've always
> avoided the Mac and Carbon libraries because I had no idea where to
> begin with them, what was covered, and what I could expect to work.
> Having any kind of a starting point would be an improvement.

The Carbon wrappers basicly cover a lot of the APIs that were in OS9  
and none (or very little) of the APIs that were added in OSX.

Ronald



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