Re: using new APIs with old OS versions

FROM : Jerry Krinock
DATE : Mon Jul 24 21:21:36 2006

on 06/07/23 14:20, Bob Clark at <email_removed> wrote:

> Is there an approach that will not preemptively abort launch on
> Panther? The only approach I can think of (aside from abandoning my
> attempt to subclass from NSLevelIndicatorCell) is to have the
> CustomCellTiger definition and implementation in a separate NSBundle,
> which is only loaded under Tiger. But man, that feels like a lot of
> effort just to salvage the small-and-shrinking Panther user base.


My solution to this same problem was to create the NSLevelIndicator
programatically, after first checking Gestalt.  But then, that was last year
when the Panther user base was only not-so-small-and-shrinking.