Re: 64 bit version of Quesa

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

Sean McBride wrote:
> On 2007-02-16 12:17, James Walker said:
> 
>>> The viewer uses QuickDraw but the viewer is a small part of Quesa.
>>> This could be re-coded to use Quartz or Cocoa but Quartz would be
>>> more universal. I doubt Apple will support QuickDraw for too many
>>> more years even on the 32bit Intel platform.
>> There's also QuickDraw in E3MacDrawContext.c and GLDrawContext.c.
> 
> And it's not just QuickDraw.  Quesa uses other long-since-deprecated-and-
> now-totally-gone APIs: like FSSpecs.
> 
> I think a 64 bit Quesa on Mac will be a non-trivial effort.


I suspect that most of the QD stuff in E3MacDrawContext.c is in support 
of the Q3XDrawRegion_* APIs, which are not used by any of our renderers 
(not even RayShade).  We could consider dropping support for those APIs.
-- 
   James W. Walker, Innoventive Software LLC
   <http://www.frameforge3d.com/>