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Sample Carbon application

I'm learning Mac OS X programming and especially Carbon so I can help Stefan, Florian and Tino with porting OpenOffice.org to non-X11 environment. I have finished reading Handling Carbon Windows and Controls and thus I prototyped very small demo application where I'm trying all stuff I read in the document. I also had to look for details in other documents like Window Manager Reference and Event Manager Programming Guide.

The demo application is pretty simple - it creates window, installs custom event handler and runs the application event loop. The window close button quits the application event loop. Very simple application, but I believe it can help other people while reading the above mentioned document.

I'll continue my learning with Carbon Event Manager Programming Guide and I also plan to extend this application to be full blown application bundle with icons, localization (like GNU "Hello World" is ;-) etc.