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WWDC 2002 Information

Extensive session details, including daily schedules, for Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference 2002 are now available

Carbon Sessions

Making your Application Unicode Savvy
What's larger than a breadbox and has an airplane, a snowman, and two smiley faces? It's Unicode, an international character set standard that can represent most of the world's languages. Unicode is central to Apple's operating system strategy and should be central to your application strategy as well. In this session, developers learn how to create a Unicode-savvy application, providing better support for heavily used languages such as Japanese.

Font Manager
The Font Manager on Mac OS X makes it easy to support an extensive range of font technologies and data formats. This session is essential to developers of advanced applications that need to manage fonts and/or directly access font data. Developers learn about the font formats supported in Mac OS X, how to create and manage a font menu, how to get the font panel into your Carbon application, and much more.

Drawing Text with ATSUI
Apple Type Services for Unicode Imaging (ATSUI) enables the rendering of Unicode-encoded text with advanced typographic features. This session explains the concepts behind ATSUI, talks about performance, and discusses new additions to the current ATSUI API set.

Migrating to Carbon Events
The Carbon Event model is a simple, flexible, and efficient model for handling events in Mac OS X. This session provides developers with step-by-step instructions for migrating WaitNextEvent-based applications to the new Carbon Event model.

HI Toolbox: An Architectural Overview
This session provides an overview of the High Level Toolbox architecture, including a focus on Apple's new foundation for building user interface objects. A brief overview of several new technologies in progress and how they integrate with each other will be presented.

HIToolbox: Introducing HIView
This session covers the new compositing model of the Control Manager, which provides a fast, flexible view system and even eliminates the need for WDEFs. Learn how you can take advantage of this new model, including writing your own custom views.

HIToolbox: New Controls and Service
This session features a variety of upcoming features in the High Level Toolbox that will help Carbon developers deliver the best possible Aqua experience in their applications. How to improve applications with the combo box control, the toolbar control, services, drawers, and keyboard focus is discussed.

Improving Performance with Carbon Events
Learn how to take advantage of Carbon events to improve application performance. This session covers Carbon events-based solutions to common Mac OS 9 pitfalls that can prevent your application from delivering maximum performance on Mac OS X. Developers will also learn how to replace their pulling and tracking code with Carbon events to maximize performance.

MLTE: A Unicode Text Engine
Learn about the Multilingual Text Engine, Apple's full-featured API for creating and editing Unicode text documents. MLTE is a modern replacement to TextEdit. This session provides an overview of what MLTE offers developers and discusses new features, such as URL support and the new scrolling APIs.

Accessibility and Carbon
This session teaches developers how to make their Carbon applications accessible, covering the standard accessibility features found in HIToolbox controls, windows, and menus. Developers also learn how to override and augment the standard functionality to make custom controls and frameworks available to the new Accessibility APIs.

WWDC is Apple's annual Worldwide Developers Conference and is scheduled for May 6-10, in San Jose, CA. Register early and save money.

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