RE: [GD-General] dev environments

[Brian H. <bri...@py...>]

At 10:10 AM 12/23/2001 +0000, Philip Harris wrote:
>Does working on the Mac solve all the C++/MFC problems then? Or just
>interface building issues?

Mostly interface building and maintenance issues (once you build the 
interface, you can change it later trivially as long as you adhere to the 
MVC paradigm...I never found AppWizard to be nearly as good in that 
respect.  It always felt that once I built the skeleton code, editing it 
later was just not tenable.).  But using Obj-C is definitely a big part of 
the plus.

>Similarly there's many types of game where it's inefficient to run cross
>platform on the Mac.

Er, maybe console games, but architecturally speaking the Mac is just a PC 
with a different processor (at least in the case of OS X -- MacOS has its 
own set of annoying issues, but that still shouldn't make x-plat that more 
difficult).

So porting between the two should be trivial, given code that is reasonably 
portable to begin with.  If you're hardcoding calls to Win32 or DSound, 
well, yeah, you're asking for trouble.

>That depends entirely on your GUI library, if the desktop can give you
>lots of windows or high resolution then what's to stop the game doing
>the same?

Most games create a single window and operate within it.  Windows 
specifically is architected around the MDI paradigm so writing multi-window 
apps that don't exist inside a parent workspace is not commonly done 
(obviously it CAN be done, but most sample code and docs don't go out of 
their way to illustrate this).

Brian