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The Event Manager, also known as the classic Event Manager and the Toolbox Event Manager, provides routines that communicate information about actions performed by the user and give notice of changes in the processing status of your application. The Event Manager also provides routines that your application can use to communicate with other applications. Note that Carbon introduces a new event model to the Mac OS, with a new set of APIs. Developers are strongly encouraged to use the Carbon Event Manager APIs in place of the Event Manager APIs.

Event Manager Reference This document provides a complete reference to the Event Manager APIs.     Introducing the Carbon Event Manager [PDF] This document introduces the key features of the Carbon Event Manager and offers some simple steps you can take to improve your application's performance when running on Mac OS X.   Carbon Event Manager Preliminary API Reference This draft document is supplied as a preliminary reference to help you begin adopting the Carbon Event Manager programming interface.