Re: Mac OS X Port of GTK+

[Darin Adler <darin bentspoon com>]

on 9/8/01 2:16 PM, Finlay Dobbie at finlay dobbie btinternet com wrote:

>>> I am planning on using the Cocoa API, which is actually Objective-C.
>> 
>> I think there is a C API for Quartz. What's the reason you need to use
>> the
>> Cocoa API? This sounds wrong to me.
> 
> Well there is a C API, but it's evil and lowlevel, and actually private
> (Apple doesn't supply the headers). There is Carbon, of course, but I
> don't think I'm willing to learn that (it's not particularly neat), and
> I don't see any major problems with using Cocoa.

Ah, I thought you were talking about the graphics part of Quartz, which is
all in C (the CoreGraphics framework). You're talking about the "making
windows" and clipboard and drag and drop part. Cocoa would of course be fine
for that.

    -- Darin