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Carbon is a set of C APIs offering developers an advanced user interface tool kit, event handling, the Quartz 2D graphics library, and multiprocessing support. Developers have access to other C and C++ APIs, including the OpenGL drawing system and the Mach microkernel.

A guided introduction and learning path for developers new to Carbon.   Essential information for developers using procedural C.   C API references organized by framework.
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GLUTSurfaceTexture (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Example of using the new glutSurfaceTexture.
Graphics & Imaging 2004-03-26
GlyphaIVOld (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Deprecated - A basic game implementation in the spirit of Joust meant as demonstation of Sprocket usage.
Games, Graphics & Imaging 2003-10-14
GrabBag (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Demonstrates variety of techniques and features of Carbon. DataBrowser , PBCatalogSearchAsync, Overlay windows, Tab controls, more...
File Management, Human Interface Toolbox, User Experience 2003-07-29
HackTV Carbon (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
HackTV Carbon shows how to use the sequence grabber to preview and record QuickTime movie files.
QuickTime 2007-11-16
HandyScrollingSample (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Shows some ways of implementing scrolling.
User Experience 2003-01-30
HexEditorView (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
HIView subclass which implements a hex editor similar to those found in resource editors.
Human Interface Toolbox 2003-01-30
HICustomLeftRightSwitch (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Illustrates how to create a custom left/right switch using the HIView functions introduced in Mac OS X 10.2.
Human Interface Toolbox 2003-02-06
HICustomPushButton (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Illustrates how to create a simple custom push button using the HIView functions introduced in Mac OS X 10.2.
Human Interface Toolbox 2005-10-17
HID Config Save (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Human Interface Device Manager Configuration sample
Games 2008-05-07
HideMenuBar (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Shows how to hide the menu bar.
Human Interface Toolbox, User Experience 2003-01-30
HIDoubleSlider (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Illustrates how to create a double slider using the Appearance and HIView functions introduced in Mac OS X 10.2.
Human Interface Toolbox 2003-10-27
HIEmbedder (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Shows how to write a custom embedding HIView which can scroll if set in an HIScrollView.
Human Interface Toolbox 2003-11-13
HIFleetingControls (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Implements fleeting controls such as seen in QuickTime Player full screen mode or iPhoto slideshow
Human Interface Toolbox 2007-05-08
HIFramework (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Contains C++ classes which are used by other HIToolbox sample code releases.
Human Interface Toolbox 2003-02-06
HIObjectThreadController (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Shows how threads can interact with the User Interface handled by the main thread of the application.
Human Interface Toolbox 2005-08-10
HIScrollingTextBox (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Offers replacement custom HIViews for the Scrolling TextBox control which does not work in compositing windows.
Human Interface Toolbox 2003-11-06
HISimpleList (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Illustrates how to create a simple list using the HIView APIs introduced in Mac OS X 10.2.
Human Interface Toolbox 2006-03-03
HITextShowcase (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Illustrates some of the different text-related controls, non-controls, and HIViews that are available in Mac OS X 10.3.
Human Interface Toolbox, Text & Fonts 2003-10-27
HITextViewDemo (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Overview of basic HITextView functionality, including Tiger's new font & spelling panel support.
Human Interface Toolbox, Text & Fonts 2005-06-01
HITextViewShowcase (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Shows how to create a HITextView using Interface Builder and using programming functions only.
Human Interface Toolbox, Text & Fonts 2003-10-30
HIToolboxSOU-Delegates (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Shows how to use the HIObject Delegate API.
Human Interface Toolbox 2006-08-04
HIToolboxSOU-MenuItemViews (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Shows how to use the Menu Item View API.
Human Interface Toolbox 2006-08-04
HIView-NSView (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Demonstrates how to embed an NSView within an HIView in a Carbon window.
Design Guidelines, Human Interface Toolbox, User Experience 2007-05-29
HIViewTest (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
An HIView with rudimentary drawing and hit testing.
Human Interface Toolbox 2003-01-30
HTMLSample (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Deprecated - Illustrates one way to use the HTMLRenderingLib Library.
User Experience 2003-01-30
HTMLUserPane (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Deprecated - Shows how to display a HTMLRenderingLib object inside of a user pane control.
User Experience 2003-01-30
icon cache demo (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Demonstrates the use of an icon cache to limit the search for icon resource to one resource file.
Human Interface Toolbox, Performance, User Experience 2003-01-30
Icon Play (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Demonstrates the use of icon utilities and popup control cdef in a program using modal dialogs.
Human Interface Toolbox, User Experience 2003-01-30
IconUtilCheck (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Shows how to determine whether the Icon Utilities are available.
Human Interface Toolbox, User Experience 2003-01-30
ictbSample (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Deprecated - Shows an example of ictb resource.
User Experience 2003-01-30
ImageBrowserView (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Implementing a simple HIView subclass
Human Interface Toolbox 2005-06-01
ImageClient (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Demonstrates how to use CFNetwork for synchronous and asynchronous operations, network diagnostics, proxy navigation, and authentication.
Networking 2005-06-01
ImageMapView (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Demonstrates how to add Accessibility to a complex custom HIView and the related parts of an application.
Accessibility, Human Interface Toolbox 2005-10-17
InkSample (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Demonstrates some usage scenarios for the Ink.Framework APIs.
Text & Fonts 2003-10-27
iTunesController (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
iTunesController allows you to control iTunes without having to bring it to the foreground.
Accessibility 2006-02-23
kcapApp (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Demonstrates drawing the key caps, given a set of modifiers and KCHR and KCAP resource IDs.
User Experience 2003-01-30
KeyMapTest (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Uses Pascal to display a KeyMap representation whenever keys are pressed.
User Experience 2003-01-30
KillEveryOneButMe (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Demonstrates how to terminate all other processes.
Process Management 2005-08-24
ListMania (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Demonstrates a variety of techniques for using Open Transport's list utility routines.
Data Management, Networking 2003-01-14
LittleArrowsShowcase (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
How to increment and decrement the LittleArrows value when the user clicks on the up and down buttons.
Human Interface Toolbox 2006-11-09
Live Scroll (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Deprecated - Demonstrates how to implementing live scrolling during the tracking of scroll bar thumbs.
User Experience 2003-01-30
LocalServer (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Deprecated - Sample demonstrates how a Classic process can communicate with a Mac OS X process using IP networking protocols.
Apple Applications, Events & Other Input, Networking, Runtime Architecture 2003-01-30
LoginItemsAE (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Uses Apple events to manipulate the list of login items (items launched when you log in).
Interapplication Communication, Process Management 2005-10-17
MapLargeFile (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Shows a technique for mapping files greater than 4GB into memory for faster access.
Resource Management 2003-11-19
MassiveImage (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Shows how to use a CGDataProvider to save a very large image with Image IO
Graphics & Imaging 2007-09-27
MemoryBasedBundle (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Shows how to execute Mach-O code from memory, much like GetMemFragment in CFM.
Runtime Architecture 2005-08-10
MenuViews (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Demonstrates a variety of interesting uses of HIView-based menus in Mac OS X 10.3.
Human Interface Toolbox 2003-10-24
MLTE_CustomScrolling (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Shows how to implement MLTE's custom scrolling functionality
Human Interface Toolbox, Text & Fonts 2004-10-15
Mode (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Shows how to enumerate displays and list the available modes for each display.
Graphics & Imaging 2003-01-14
ModeWhacker (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Shows how to enumerate, select, capture, manipulate, and release displays using the CGDirectDisplay API.
Graphics & Imaging 2003-01-14
MoreAppleEvents (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Provides routines that assist with the creation and sending of Apple events and object descriptors.
Interapplication Communication, Tools 2003-01-14
MoreFiles (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Shows various File Manager operations (file copy, etc.) through a collection of high-level routines.
File Management 2003-01-14
MoreFilesX (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Deprecated - Shows various File Manager operations through a collection of high-level routines using HFS Plus APIs.
File Management 2005-05-13
MoreIsBetter (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Library providing indispensable wrapers and workarounds for many areas of Mac OS programming.
Audio, Core Foundation, Data Management, Events & Other Input, File Management, Graphics & Imaging, Human Interface Toolbox, Interapplication Communication, Internationalization, Networking, Porting, Process Management, Resource Management, Runtime Architecture, Security, Text & Fonts, User Experience 2003-10-27
MoreOSL (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
C library for implementing AppleScript support within your application.
Interapplication Communication 2003-01-14
MouseTracking (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Sample code used in the WWDC 2005 Hands-On session 215 "Moving from QD to Quartz"
Graphics & Imaging 2005-06-01
MPFileCopy (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Demonstrates how to copy a folder and its contents using the HFS Plus APIs from an MP task.
File Management, Process Management 2003-01-14
MungSaver (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Demonstrates a simple Screen Saver module for Panther, using the Sequence Grabber DataProc mung technique.
User Experience 2003-11-18
NamingTableAccess (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Digs out the contents of the NamingTable in a TrueType 'sfnt'.
Text & Fonts 2003-01-14
NewCCursor (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Deprecated - Shows how to create a black and white 'CURS' and a color 'crsr' cursor resource by hand.
Graphics & Imaging, User Experience 2003-01-14
NoCopyReceives (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Demonstrates using no-copy receives under Open Transport.
Networking, Resource Management 2003-01-14
NoSound (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Illustrates how to install a procedure to be executed when the user restarts or shuts down.
User Experience 2003-01-30
NSLMiniBrowser (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Deprecated - Uses the NSL API to find network services using SLP, NBP, and Directory Services.
Networking 2003-01-14
ODOC (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Illustrates how to send an open document ('odoc') Apple event to another application process.
Interapplication Communication 2003-01-14
OT Virtual Server (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Deprecated - Sample code which uses Open Transport and demonstrates real world issues.
Networking 2003-01-14
OTEndpointInfo (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Deprecated - Demonstrates how to query an endpoint for its 'vital statistic' using OTGetEndpointInfo.
Networking 2003-08-20
OTLookupNameTest (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Deprecated - Demonstrates how to lookup NBP entities on an AppleTalk network using Open Transport.
Networking 2003-01-14
OTMP (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Deprecated - A library for calling Open Transport synchronously from preemptively scheduled tasks (MP tasks).
Networking 2003-07-22
OTPingSample (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Deprecated - Demonstrates how to implement ping on top of the Open Transport API.
Networking 2003-07-22
Out of This GWorld (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Deprecated - Demonstrates the use of offscreen GWorlds and palette animation to simulate animation.
Games, Graphics & Imaging 2003-03-12
Palette and GWorld (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Deprecated - Demonstrates the use of palette and color tables with GWorlds.
Graphics & Imaging 2003-10-10
Password (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Deprecated - Illustrates three different ways to implement password fields in dialogs.
Human Interface Toolbox, User Experience 2003-01-30
PasteboardPeeker (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Using pasteboards for Copy and Paste, Drag and Drop, service support and filter services.
Interapplication Communication, Text & Fonts 2005-08-10
PDEProject (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Deprecated - Demonstrates an application-hosted printing dialog extension (PDE) that displays a custom pane in the Print dialog.
Printing 2003-01-14
Play Video Sample (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Deprecated - The sample makes use of the RequestVideo sample code API.
Graphics & Imaging 2003-01-14
PMPrinterPrintWithFile (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
How to send files, for example PostScript and PDF, directly to the printer. Replaces the pict-ps path.
Printing 2006-07-18
PMPrinterTest (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Demonstrates using the PMPrinter APIs to obtain information about the connected printers.
Printing 2009-02-13
PopUpMenuWithCurFont (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Deprecated - Demonstrates what must be done to control the font used by MDEF 0 during PopUpMenuSelect.
Human Interface Toolbox, User Experience 2003-01-30
PreLoginAgents (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Pre-login launchd agents to display UI using AppKit and HIToolbox.
Process Management 2007-10-26
Process (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
A simple demonstration of the Process Manager API.
Process Management 2003-10-30
ProfileSystem (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Shows how to obtain the same information that System Profiler displays.
Core Foundation 2005-05-05
PThreadSorts (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Applies various sorting algorithms to pictures using POSIX threads (pthreads) on Mac OS X.
Process Management 2003-01-14
PutAwayVolumes (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Deprecated - Demonstrates several ways to unmount a volume and which contexts might require which techniques.
File Management, Interapplication Communication 2003-01-14
QISA (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Demonstrates the basics of writing an Internet setup assistant for traditional Mac OS and Mac OS X.
Human Interface Toolbox, Networking 2003-05-15
QTCarbonCoreImage101 (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Demonstrates how to render QuickTime Movies using Core Image filters and the new video pipeline.
QuickTime 2006-02-14
QTCarbonShell (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
A skeleton of a modern Carbon QuickTime application demonstrating how to incorporate QuickTime support into a Carbon application.
QuickTime 2009-03-19
QTMetaData (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Demonstrates the QuickTime 7 MetaData APIs in a Carbon application.
QuickTime 2009-03-16
qtshell (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Simple QuickTime and QuickTime VR viewer framework.
QuickTime 2003-10-27
qtshellCEvents (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
A Carbon event based movie viewer framework which demonstrates how to incorporate movie support into an application.
QuickTime 2003-01-14
Quartz 2D Shadings (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Shows how to use CGShading and CGGradient objects to draw simple gradients.
Graphics & Imaging 2007-08-31
Quartz 2D Transformer (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Shows how to use Quartz 2D to manipulate an image
Graphics & Imaging 2007-06-21
Quartz2DBasics (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Carbon and Cocoa sample code demonstrating some basic usage of the Quartz 2D API
Graphics & Imaging 2006-09-11
QuartzLines (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Drawing Lines using Quartz's CGPath & CGContextStrokeLineSegments functions.
Graphics & Imaging 2005-06-01
QuartzShapes (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Example Quartz functions that implement equivalents to the QuickDraw PaintArc, FrameArc, PaintOval, FrameOval, PaintRect, and FrameRect
Graphics & Imaging 2005-03-08
QuickTimeMovieControl (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Demonstrates how to easily add QuickTime media playback to an application
QuickTime 2005-08-10
ReadLocation (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Retrieves the Map control panel settings for longitude and latitude and the time offset from GMT.
User Experience 2003-01-30
RecentItems (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Implements "Recent items" menu(s)
Human Interface Toolbox, User Experience 2006-10-09
RecordAudioToFile (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Demonstrates recording audio to an AAC file using Core Audio
Audio 2007-02-27
ReKeyTrans (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Shows how to patch KeyTrans to ignore dead-key processing so you type fancy accented characters.
User Experience 2003-01-30
resolveRelativeAlias (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Demonstrates the steps involved in creating and resolving a relative alias.
File Management 2003-01-14