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From: Curtis L. O. <cu...@fl...> - 2001-06-12 17:09:25
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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. -- Curtis Olson Human Factors Research Lab FlightGear Project Twin Cities cu...@hf... cu...@fl... Minnesota http://www.menet.umn.edu/~curt http://www.flightgear.org |