This is a fantastic program, but as far as I could tell it is not available for Mac - and since I have recently bought a mac, I'm in trouble! Notepad++ makes everything so easy, and without it I'm getting nowhere! If the developer is reading this - please! make notepad++ work with mac!
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But a Mac is better, and some of us like to have a system that is reliable and works over one that is buggy and shit. Plus they are much nicer to use, the GUI is better designed and they have operating systems that work. All the time. And are released when they are finished. They are just better. Get used to it.
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Hey, I'm OK with that. I don't have a Mac, but I'll take your word for it. However, I don't have to get used to it. My Windows PC just does the job as well and I can use Notepad++, which seems to be a problem to you. I could just say: get used to it, to you, as well.
C'mon, you can't be jealous of us just because Notepad++ won't run on your machine, right?
But I have to agree with you, Notepad++ makes up for all the Windows mistakes, really.
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So yes, they are better (I am still favoring linux, though - but my comparison is unfair I haven't really sat behind a mac too often).
However there is a completely different problem I guess. From what I read about N++ I think it consists of two layers - a actual library that does the work and a GUI layer on top of that. Now - I may have understood this incorrectly, but I understood this GUI was done with the windows API. Now the widows API (like most OS APIs) is terrible.
Personally I use a library to create a window and open a opengl drawing are in it - just because I find it to messy to do it with the windows API, and next have to do it agian fo reach other platform I want to support.
With this knowledge you might see where the problem with Mac support lies, it simply is a heck of a job and takes up a lot of time. So.. I don't think Mac Os support will be added in the near future. Unless, of course, you are volunteering to do the job...
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Just use Windows or an emulator. It's easier than repeatedly bugging us with the same question and us having to give the same answer over and over again.
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Notepad++ is built on top of Scintilla, a cross platform editor. Scintilla can work with Windows API and GTK+. I have no idea how this makes it suitable to work with a Mac.
Now, Notepad++ proper has two types of contents. One manipulates text and is nearly platform agnostic, once the encoding of characters is known. The other is all the GUI, which is done using the native Window API.
What might be viable is porting the GUI to a cross platform toolkit - I'd suggest WxWidgets, but Qt could be good. This will require a team o developers working full time for a few lonths; we are not aware of such resources lying around untapped.
In a nutshell: as desirable as porting Notepad++ to other platforms would be, this is a large project in itself. Oh, and I assumed Wx- or Qt-ifying has no incidence on performance - I have no idea about this, but am afraid the impat would be noticeable.
CChris
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This is a fantastic program, but as far as I could tell it is not available for Mac - and since I have recently bought a mac, I'm in trouble! Notepad++ makes everything so easy, and without it I'm getting nowhere! If the developer is reading this - please! make notepad++ work with mac!
But a Mac is better, and some of us like to have a system that is reliable and works over one that is buggy and shit. Plus they are much nicer to use, the GUI is better designed and they have operating systems that work. All the time. And are released when they are finished. They are just better. Get used to it.
Hey, I'm OK with that. I don't have a Mac, but I'll take your word for it. However, I don't have to get used to it. My Windows PC just does the job as well and I can use Notepad++, which seems to be a problem to you. I could just say: get used to it, to you, as well.
C'mon, you can't be jealous of us just because Notepad++ won't run on your machine, right?
But I have to agree with you, Notepad++ makes up for all the Windows mistakes, really.
So yes, they are better (I am still favoring linux, though - but my comparison is unfair I haven't really sat behind a mac too often).
However there is a completely different problem I guess. From what I read about N++ I think it consists of two layers - a actual library that does the work and a GUI layer on top of that. Now - I may have understood this incorrectly, but I understood this GUI was done with the windows API. Now the widows API (like most OS APIs) is terrible.
Personally I use a library to create a window and open a opengl drawing are in it - just because I find it to messy to do it with the windows API, and next have to do it agian fo reach other platform I want to support.
With this knowledge you might see where the problem with Mac support lies, it simply is a heck of a job and takes up a lot of time. So.. I don't think Mac Os support will be added in the near future. Unless, of course, you are volunteering to do the job...
I would so second that :)
Mac support, please!
Just use Windows or an emulator. It's easier than repeatedly bugging us with the same question and us having to give the same answer over and over again.
I Agree an i wish to get a mac-version asap!!!! Thx
Notepad++ is built on top of Scintilla, a cross platform editor. Scintilla can work with Windows API and GTK+. I have no idea how this makes it suitable to work with a Mac.
Now, Notepad++ proper has two types of contents. One manipulates text and is nearly platform agnostic, once the encoding of characters is known. The other is all the GUI, which is done using the native Window API.
What might be viable is porting the GUI to a cross platform toolkit - I'd suggest WxWidgets, but Qt could be good. This will require a team o developers working full time for a few lonths; we are not aware of such resources lying around untapped.
In a nutshell: as desirable as porting Notepad++ to other platforms would be, this is a large project in itself. Oh, and I assumed Wx- or Qt-ifying has no incidence on performance - I have no idea about this, but am afraid the impat would be noticeable.
CChris