Re: [gtk-osx-users] Dynamically loading GTK-OSX?

[Kevin Layer <layer franz com>]

John Ralls wrote:

> > > On Dec 24, 2015, at 9:34 AM, Kevin Layer <layer franz com> wrote:
> > >
> > > John Ralls wrote:
> > >
> > > > > On the other hand, if you can do that you can also create a Cocoa
> > > > > GUI that will work better and be much more pleasing to your Mac
> > > > > users.
> > >
> > > My understanding is that Xamarin did this while using GTK and that the
> > > Cocoa layer is already in GTK.  Are there instructions for building
> > > this?
> >
> > I don't know anything about Xamarin except that it's a company
> > which commercializes Mono. Mono is an open-source version of
> > Microsoft's .NET framework. 
> >
> > Gtk has a quartz layer which uses a few Cocoa calls to implement
> > features where it's absolutely necessary. It's very much not a
> > "Cocoa Layer" and doesn't provide the same appearance or user
> > experience that a native implementation using Cocoa would. Mono has
> > a MonoMac add-on that I think replaces Gtk+ with Cocoa for Mono
> > development. Perhaps that's what you're thinking of.

Thanks for the explanation.

> > Instructions for what? Writing your application's GUI in Cocoa?

I thought there was real Cocoa under GTK and it was a matter of
building for it.  Thanks for setting me straight.

Kevin