Learning Carbon

What’s Up Ahead

This book is designed as a tutorial. Each chapter builds upon the previous one. You should start at the beginning and proceed sequentially. Chapters are designed so you can stop at the end of each one, then pick up with the next at a later time.

This book will take you, step by step, through the design and building of a simple Carbon application (Moon Travel Planner). After finishing this book, you should be comfortable enough with basic Carbon concepts and the workings of Project Builder and Interface Builder to start writing your own Carbon applications.

The topics in upcoming chapters are as follows:

• Chapter 1 provides an overview of Carbon, Mac OS X, and the Carbon programming interfaces and tells what’s involved in building a Carbon application.

• Chapter 2 discusses the process of specifying a simple application, Moon Travel Planner, and its user interface.

• Chapter 3 introduces Project Builder and describes how to build a minimalist application (essentially the prototypical “Hello World” application without the “Hello World” part). It also introduces the concept of bundles and application packaging.

• Chapter 4 introduces Interface Builder and shows how to use it to create a simple window.

• Chapter 5 expands on Chapter 4, letting you add buttons and other controls to the simple window.

• Chapter 6 introduces the Carbon event-handling model and shows you how to create a basic event handler.

• Chapter 7 shows you how to use Interface Builder to create menus for your application. ...