Re: How viable is Cocoa development?

FROM : John C. Randolph
DATE : Sat Jan 26 00:23:27 2002

On Friday, January 25, 2002, at 03:09 PM, Finlay Dobbie wrote:

>
> On Friday, January 25, 2002, at 10:55 PM, John C. Randolph wrote:
>
>>> Troll or not, in the context it is, I guess, quite right:
>>> whilst almost
>>> complete Cocoa (but some news like sheets or drawers) is
>>> totally portable to
>>> anywhere GNUStep is available, *NO* Carbon-specific service is
>>> available
>>> outside of Mac.
>>
>> AFAIK, the GNUStep folks haven't tried yet to implement the
>> window-morphing that we do for the sheets.
>
> As Ondra said... Even so, when (if?) GNUstep ports the sheets
> API, who says they have to make them squoosh out in such a
> silly way? I mean, I'd be perfectly happy if Apple spent more
> time fixing bugs than implementing all their window squooshing
> effects.

The window morphing effect was *done* by the time that Steve
first demonstrated it.  We don't have a bunch of people
re-implementing it every month.

-jcr

John C. Randolph    <<email_removed>>  (408) 974-8819
Sr. Software Engineer, Cocoa Evangelism
Apple Worldwide Developer Relations