Re: [MACTCL] No 64-bit Carbon = Problem for Tk Aqua?

[Kevin W. <kw...@co...>]

Jim Ingham wrote:

> 
> Cocoa is a higher level toolkit than Carbon.  Tk wants to get it's 
> grubby paws on events much closer to the "raw" state than the Cocoa 
> model allows you to easily do.  OTOH, Carbon is a pretty low-level 
> toolkit.  So it was a better match for Tk.  That's why when we were 
> originally doing the Mac OS X port I decided to go with Carbon rather 
> than rewriting it in Cocoa.
> 
> It could probably be done with Cocoa, but it would be more work, and 
> would probably require subverting what Cocoa wants you to do at various 
> points, so it is likely to be somewhat fragile.  Moreover, it would be a 
> lot of work.  If somebody wants to do this, it would probably be a lot 
> of fun, but it's not a weekend project...
> 

And I'm not certainly not the person to do it, alas.

This pretty much confirms my fears. It appears that, long-term, Carbon 
(and correspondingly Tk) is a dead-end for GUI development on OS 
X--perhaps not now, but a few years from now.

-- 
Kevin Walzer
Code by Kevin
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