Is Pro Tools a carbon based application for Mac's?

[sirgant]

Is Pro Tools a carbon based application for Mac's?

Just wanted some clarification and information on this.

[sirgant]

Any experts want to chime in? Surely someone has some info on this.

[LukeHoward]

Looks like it:

% otool -L Pro\ Tools\ HD|grep Carbon
/System/Library/Frameworks/Carbon.framework/Versions/A/Carbon (compatibility version 2.0.0, current version 128.0.0)

[LukeHoward]

Looks like it:

% otool -L Pro\ Tools\ HD|grep Carbon
/System/Library/Frameworks/Carbon.framework/Versions/A/Carbon (compatibility version 2.0.0, current version 128.0.0)

[jimlongo]

Since Carbon has been "grandfathered" I wonder what that means for Protools going forward?

from ArsTechnica

Yep, it's (finally) the end of the line for Carbon GUI applications in Mac OS X. Oh, sure, they'll be around for years and years to come, but the lack of 64-bit support is a long-term death sentence.

The last vestiges of the original Macintosh API are finally being put to rest. They've done their job and are being given a decent burial, I think. A slow, almost natural transition. Bugs will be fixed in the 32-bit Carbon APIs, of course, but no new features will be added. All new GUI APIs in Leopard and future Mac OS X releases will be added as Cocoa-only APIs.

Perhaps the most painful part of this for developers with large Carbon code bases (poor Adobe... ) is that Apple did, in fact, port Carbon to 64-bit. There were sessions on it at WWDC 2006, and the code appeared in Leopard seeds. The decision to drop 64-bit support for Carbon was obviously a hard one to make, but eventually it was made, despite the work already put into the effort.

[Matt_G]

Since Carbon has been "grandfathered" I wonder what that means for Protools going forward?

Hopefully that means we get a fresh 100% Cocoa version for Leopard finally. It's probably one of the reasons why Pro Tools uses more CPU on native plugs compared with Logic or any 'Cocoa' based application. It's time we see some speed improvements on the native side of things...

Matt

[JFreak]

Hopefully that means we get a fresh 100% Cocoa version for Leopard finally.

At least whenever Protools goes 64bit it will have to be Cocoa

[sirgant]

Hopefully that means we get a fresh 100% Cocoa version for Leopard finally. It's probably one of the reasons why Pro Tools uses more CPU on native plugs compared with Logic or any 'Cocoa' based application. It's time we see some speed improvements on the native side of things...

Matt

More realistically what it means is that we won't be seeing a 100% Cocoa version of PT for a good while. Conspicous in their absence from commenting on this thread is anyone from Digi...

[jimlongo]

Well realistically what are they going to say, . . . "that they're always looking forward developing their products and committed to a Mac/Windows equal platform". It was more of a rhetorical question.

And digidesign is not alone in this predicament, Adobe Photoshop probably being the other big notable, will be faced with a big decision at some point. It doesn't have to be right away.

More importantly what might this mean to dual platform coding.

Interesting times