Cocoa® Programming

Quartz Extreme

One of the most highly anticipated new features in Jaguar is Quartz Extreme. Quartz consists of a window server process and a powerful library of 2D drawing functions based on Adobe’s Portable Document Format (PDF) imaging model. The window server is a process that runs in the background and controls display access by applications. The window server manages the layering of windows owned by different applications and implements features such as translucency, live-window dragging, and color correction. The window server can reposition windows, apply translucent drop shadows, and layer translucent windows without interrupting other applications. Quartz Extreme enhances the window server to use hardware accelerated graphics operations ...