Re: [Flightgear-devel] 0.7.7 release schedule.

[Curtis L. O. <cu...@fl...>]

Jason H Clouse writes:
> <<Dunno, how is the OpenGL support under BSD? I seem to recall Derrell
> talking about this on the plib list, of all places.
> he was saying it was an easy port because of the OSX "framework" business
> IIRC.>>
> 
> It's kind of funny but apparently NeXT/Apple still has a really hard time
> publicizing the existence of their excellent frameworks (object oriented
> libraries).  What he was most likely speaking of was something similar to
> the 3DKit, an object-oriented scene graph framework written in Objective
> C (the language that NeXT/Apple uses for application development).  When
> developing applications for MOSX, one should try to ignore the UNIX
> aspect of the operating system.  Instead, one uses the high level
> development API (the Application Kit, Foundation Kit, and so on) to write
> applications.  A proper MOSX application will be written in Objective C
> with these APIs rather than using UNIX system calls or any X
> functionality.  In fact, you don't even mess directly with Aqua (the MOSX
> GUI).  The Application Kit framework shields the programmer from
> implementation details.  That's why the API is portable.

Is this application kit framework available for Linux, windows, irix,
etc.?  Otherwise I'd say it's only portable "in theory". :-)

Curt.
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