[sadie]

I'm about to start learning Cocoa (when my exams are over, in a week or two). But I've heard that there are things that Cocoa just can't do - like file Type/Creator codes, resource forks... stuff from the old Mac that hasn't come over yet. Is this true?

If it is true, how easy would it be to mix pieces of Carbon code in there to do those things? Is Carbon essentially straight C, or C++?

[parallax]

Yep, check out devworld.apple.com -> source code for an example of Cocoa with Carbon.

[Angus_D]

You shouldn't use ResourceForks for *your* application. However, I'm planning on making a nice wrapper for ResourceForks using the Resource Manager Carbon calls...

Most Carbon is straight C, though, so you can just call it from your Cocoa code. The Apple example is for C++ mainly, but I don't think there anything in Carbon that you can't do with C (although most people use C++ because it's easier to think about - OOP and so on ).