Can one use C++ frameworks from Objective-C code?

I am answering my own question: Chapter 9 promises to explain how to call Carbon APIs from Cocoa applications.
I would like to write a MIDI application using Cocoa, but as near as I can tell at this point, the MIDI routines
are Carbon and written in C++. Am I making sense?

Yes, you are making sense... But I am reading Chapter 6 now! However, I think you can write a part of program in a source file in C++ and the compiler, then linker know what they have to do with, but I have not tryed this. It seems to me I have read something about this in the Apple doc.

FJ

You can use C++ from within Objective-C code using the Objective-C++ GCC front-end. This allows you to mix Objective-C and C++ with some restrictions. If you give your source files a ".mm" extension (instead of ".m" or ".cpp") Xcode will use this Objective-C++ front-end.

One thing to remember is that Objective-C objects in a Objective-C++ file are still just Objective-C objects, not C++ classes. You must alloc/init them as usual; you cannot "new" them. The same is true of C++ objects; they must be created on the stack, or you must use "new" to create them in the heap. You cannot (last I checked) embed C++ objects inside an Objective-C object directly; although you can include pointers to C++ objects in your Objective-C object.

For example, you can't:

But you can:

Another way of mixing C++ and Objective-C is to wrap your C++ code in C bindings. Your C++ code lives in a ".cpp" file, and your Objective-C object lives in a ".m" file. Your C++ header file would only include C functions (i.e., using the "extern "C" {} " directive) implemented in the C++ file. This is kind of tedious because you have to maintain two interfaces for your C++ objects; the public C interface and the private C++ interface. You also lose some of the benefits of C++ at the API level (polymorphism, inheritance) although you also protect yourself against other problems (fragile base-classes, etc.).

Which path you choose will depend entirely on your situation.

A quick Google search turned up an online tutorial for using Objective-C++ in Xcode. I haven't looked it over in detail, but it's probably a good place to start looking.