Re: Cocoa from C++ (dont want to mix it)

FROM : Gen Kiyooka
DATE : Thu Apr 14 11:30:33 2005

On Apr 14, 2005, at 2:00 AM, Henry Maddocks wrote:
> Or any number of the c++ carbon wrappers presented at Mac hack etc.
> Or any number of the c++ xplatform tool kits available, QT, wxWindows
> etc.

I, for one, am having no trouble adapting 'classic' PowerPlant to new
features
of Carbon and Quartz, and leveraging my familiarity with C++ and MFC to
trampoline
into Mac programming.  PowerPlant is so well-thought out and flexible,
it is hard to believe.

Most big ISVs that are programming to Carbon with C++ bring their own
cross-platform
frameworks along for the ride anyway.  Adobe, for instance.  I imagine
that Alias (3d modeler)
is the same.

And the Qt designer is an interesting hybrid of the visual
programming/code generation
concepts that appear in Interface Builder with those that have been
seen in Delphi,
VisualC++, etc.

With three C++ compilers to chooser from (GCC, IBM, Metrowerks), no-one
can say that
OSX doesn't have first-class C++ options for those so inclined.  So as
far as Apple is concerned,
they're covering all the bases.  Plus, Apple has adopted something that
Win32 only dreams of:

./configure && make

In 1988 or so, when the NeXT cube was featured on the front cover of
BYTE, every programmer
I knew was drooling to have one.  Everyone can stop drooling now and
just go get a G5
with a Cinema display.  No-one was drooling for the 80286 & Win16 API
with C++.  Win32 is just Win16 -
only more-so.  The more things change, the more they stay the same.

Gen