1. Chapter 1 Introduction to Carbon

   1. Carbon and Mac OS X

   2. What's in Carbon?

   3. Building Carbon Applications

   4. The Carbon Factory Tour

   5. Recap

2. Chapter 2 Specifying a Carbon Application: Moon Travel Planner

   1. The Moon Travel Planner Window

   2. The Menu Bar

   3. The About Window

   4. The Facts for the Traveler Window

   5. The Itinerary Window

   6. Recap

3. Chapter 3 Project Builder Projects

   1. A Carbon Application Project

   2. Moon Travel Planner: Creating a Project

   3. Recap

4. Chapter 4 Interface Builder: Nibs and Windows

   1. A Carbon Nib File

   2. Moon Travel Planner: Modifying the Default Window

5. Chapter 5 Interface Builder: Toolsand Controls

   1. Palettes and Layout Tools

   2. Moon Travel Planner: Adding Objectsto the Main Window

6. Chapter 6 Carbon Events

   1. Carbon Event Handling

   2. MoonTravel Planner: Writing an Event Handler

7. Chapter 7 Interface Builder: Menus

   1. The Menu Bar

   2. Moon Travel Planner: Modifying the Menu Bar

8. Chapter 8 Text and Localization

   1. Language-Specific Folders

   2. Moon Travel Planner: Displaying Localized Text

9. Chapter 9 Printing

   1. The Carbon Printing Manager

   2. Moon Travel Planner: Adding Printing to the Moon Facts Window

10. Chapter 10 Property Lists

    1. The Information Property List: Info.plist

    2. Moon Travel Planner: Modifying and Using Properties

11. Chapter 11 Files

    1. Managing Files on the Mac

    2. Moon Travel Planner: Handling Files

    3. Recap

12. Chapter 12 Providing Help

    1. Help on Mac OS X

    2. Moon Travel Planner: Adding Help

    3. Recap

13. Chapter 13 Desktop Icons

    1. Icon Basics

    2. Moon Travel Planner: Adding Icons

    3. Recap

14. Chapter 14 Beyond Moon Travel: Advanced Topics

    1. Scriptable Applications

    2. Threads and Multiprocessing

    3. Tab Controls

    4. Epilogue

1. Appendix A Additional Resources

   1. Building Your Mac OS X Library

   2. Tapping the Carbon Developer Community

   3. Keeping Current

   4. Getting Sample Code

   5. Registering Creator Codes

   6. Partnering with Apple

2. Appendix B Carbon Event Classesand Kinds

3. Appendix C Parameter Names and Typesfor Common Event Kinds

   1. Apple Events

   2. Control Events

   3. Command Events

   4. Menu Events

   5. Mouse Events

   6. Text Input Events

   7. Window Events

4. Colophon

Our look is the result of reader comments, our own experimentation, and feedback from distribution channels. Distinctive covers complement our distinctive approach to technical topics, breathing personality and life into potentially dry subjects. The animals on the cover of Learning Carbon are bloodhounds. Sarah Jane Shangraw was the production editor and proofreader for Learning Carbon. Paulette Miley was the copyeditor . Catherine Morris and Claire Cloutier provided quality control. Ann Schirmer, Linley Dolby, and Matt Hutchinson worked on interior composition. Joe Wizda wrote the index.

Pam Spremulli designed the cover of this book, based on a series design by Edie Freedman. The cover image is a 19th-century engraving from the Dover Pictorial Archive. Emma Colby produced the cover mechanical with QuarkXPress 4.1 using Adobe's ITC Garamond font.

Melanie Wang designed the interior layout based on a series design by Nancy Priest. Jason McIntosh converted Learning Carbon into DocBook XML from Apple's native XML format and formatted the book with a program created by Norman Walsh, Lenny Muellner, and Erik Ray. The text and heading fonts are ITC Garamond Light and Garamond Book; the code font is Constant Willison. The illustrations that appear in the book were produced by Robert Romano and Jessamyn Read using Macromedia FreeHand 9 and Adobe Photoshop 6.