How?? - fbuddha

carbon apps run native on both, cocoa apps run only on os x

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Thursday, September 30 2004 @ 12:27 AM PDT

How?? - smoothmomma1

you are mistaken. Carbon is native in OS 9. Native in OS X. Cocoa is another completely separate OS X framework which is also native.

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Tuesday, March 29 2005 @ 08:31 PM PST

How?? - Mark Douma

To expand on that slightly:

CFM (Non-Carbon) - runs in OS 9 only.

CFM (Carbonized) - can usually run in both OS 9 and OS X. (Example: most Adobe apps.)

Mach-O (Carbon) - Carbon application that will only run in OS X. (Example: Finder, QuickTime Player, iTunes)

Mach-O (Cocoa) - Cocoa application that will only run in OS X.


"CFM" (Code Fragment Manager) is a fancy way of saying "OS 9 executable format."
"Mach-O" is a fancy way of saying "OS X executable format."

Hope this helps....

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Tuesday, March 29 2005 @ 08:37 PM PST