Carbon Event Manager Preliminary API Reference


The Carbon Event Manager offers a simple yet flexible approach to event handling that greatly reduces the amount of code needed to write a basic application. Morevover, the Carbon Event Manager's streamlined event handling enhances system performance on Mac OS X through more efficient allocation of processing time. Applications that use the Carbon Event Manager not only run better on Mac OS X, they help improve overall performance and responsiveness, creating a better experience for our customers.

This is a preliminary document. Although it has been reviewed for technical accuracy, it is not final. Apple Computer, Inc. is supplying this information to help you plan for the adoption of the Carbon Event Manager programming interfaces. This information is subject to change, and software implemented according to this document should be tested with final operating system software and final documentation.