Jim Ingham wrote:

>  
>  Cocoa is a higher level toolkit than Carbon.  Tk wants to get it's 
>  grubby paws on events much closer to the "raw" state than the Cocoa 
>  model allows you to easily do.  OTOH, Carbon is a pretty low-level 
>  toolkit.  So it was a better match for Tk.  That's why when we were 
>  originally doing the Mac OS X port I decided to go with Carbon rather 
>  than rewriting it in Cocoa.
>  
>  It could probably be done with Cocoa, but it would be more work, and 
>  would probably require subverting what Cocoa wants you to do at various 
>  points, so it is likely to be somewhat fragile.  Moreover, it would be a 
>  lot of work.  If somebody wants to do this, it would probably be a lot 
>  of fun, but it's not a weekend project...
>  

And I'm not certainly not the person to do it, alas.

This pretty much confirms my fears. It appears that, long-term, Carbon 
(and correspondingly Tk) is a dead-end for GUI development on OS 
X--perhaps not now, but a few years from now.

-- 
Kevin Walzer
Code by Kevin
http://www.codebykevin.com

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