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paul - 03 Oct 2005 07:49 GMT

Hi,

When building to carbon 10.4 Universal almost everything's deprecated but it
doesn't list what you should use instead. Can't find anything on
developer.apple.com. Is there anything out there which gives alternatives to
all these deprecated functions?

Thanks,

Paul

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Ben Artin - 03 Oct 2005 10:23 GMT

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> When building to carbon 10.4 Universal almost everything's deprecated but it
> doesn't list what you should use instead. Can't find anything on
> developer.apple.com. Is there anything out there which gives alternatives to
> all these deprecated functions?

I had a list but it's deprecated :-)

Seriously, this is not a simple question to answer. Ask us about the specific
APIs. The two big areas that I am aware of are that QuickDraw is deprecated in
favor of CoreGraphics and that FSSpecs are deprecated in favor of FSRefs.

hth

Ben

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Chris Baum - 04 Oct 2005 03:35 GMT

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> Ben

And just so you're aware up-front: The wholesale deprecation of
Quickdraw was premature and/or too coarse-grained. Apple is looking to
Leopard to close all of the holes.

So you're going to encounter many deprecated line items with no
alternative as of 10.4, EG, all of the Rect-related api's. There are
many api's that still take Rects which have no alternatives as of 10.4.

Try to replace the QD rendering api's with CG and FSSpec with FSRef,
then override the junk compiler warnings with your own #define.

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Eric Albert - 10 Oct 2005 13:21 GMT

> Try to replace the QD rendering api's with CG and FSSpec with FSRef,
> then override the junk compiler warnings with your own #define.

If you want to turn off the warnings, turn off the "Warn about
deprecated function calls" check box in Xcode.

-Eric

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Doc O'Leary - 04 Oct 2005 00:12 GMT

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> When building to carbon 10.4 Universal almost everything's deprecated but it
> doesn't list what you should use instead.

Cocoa.

Sorry, had to! :-)

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