Re: [Macthemes-development] Sprocket d1 and source now available

[steve <er...@co...>]

On 4/6/01 7:08 AM, "SPOOF" <SP...@ma...> wrote:

> Have you thought of writing up a quick guideline thing on how to
> write for carbon specific code?  This might be a boon both to themes,
> but also to OS X developers everywhere.  We could post it to our site
> as part of development for theme people if you wanted to do this, and
> explain what it's for.

There are better places to get Carbon developer information, but having an
open-source application that does CarbonEvents is a good thing.

I'm sure I've seen Aaron on the Apple Carbon-Dev list, that's a really good
resource for people who want to learn more about it.

Strobe writes:

> Unfortunately I have zero interest in making a theme which Cocoa apps can use.
> I want a theme like NeuTech.

My point was that you're going to be spending time using it to make sure
it's release quality, it might as well not be horrible to use. For example,
just because you *could* redefine the window widget sizes to be smaller than
Cocoa expects, you could just as easily mask off the portion you don't want
to use. That way you could still do something like move the widgets wherever
you want them, but it won't look so bad on the Terminal window.

If you want to take the time to do it let me know and I'll send you a copy
of the as-yet-unreleased new version of NeuTech, it has most of the window
stuff converted to pxm# resources to avoid that bug (though I don't see it
anymore, never did on this machine).