Re: Mach-O plug-ins for Quesa

[James W. W. <ja...@wr...>]

Peter Michelsen <Pet...@mi...> wrote:

>Looks like you where busy over the weekend:-)

Yes... not to mention giving candy to small extortionists. :-)

>I read over the CVS submit of  E3MacSystem but there is no change to
>the actual CFM version for plug-in loading. Is this right? You could
>just put a comment next to "ResolveAliasFile" that a better option
>would be "FSResolveAliasFileWithMountFlags" on OS X as there is a
>problem with "ResolveAliasFile" hanging, causing strange results (
>Actually what I was seeing and not asserting). Or use the code I
>submitted to the list with a system checking if-state to keep OS 7
>support with the value from the function that calls it "isOnOSX".

I just submitted a change using ResolveAliasFileWithMountFlags 
instead of FSResolveAliasFileWithMountFlags.  I bet that will solve 
your problem, let me know.

>Two new question?
>
>The RayShader renderer should this work like any other Quickdraw3D 
>software renderer, e.g. as a plug-in?

Right.  But expect it to be a lot slower than the interactive renderer.

>And how would you rate it's completeness as a project ( mostly done 
>or just started ) ?

I don't know that much about it.  Maybe someone else here can respond to that.

>The other question I see you are using CodeWarrior 9, did you find 
>many problems upgrading for CodeWarrior 8.3 and was it worth it?
>I ask, because we are thinking about upgrading but am unsure about 
>the effort needed in the change?

For me, the main advantage of CW 9 is better support for building 
packaged apps, frameworks, and other bundles.  If that's important to 
you, then it's worth it.  I wouldn't say there were many problems, 
once I learned to turn off the "language parser".
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