Exactly the problem, three options and none of them
good for a non-commercial hobby application that I
spent a year developing under Carbon. I'm not spending
any money on a port to Cocoa when there's no way to
make money from this application. It's researchy
stuff, solely for my own amusement and learning. I'm
the only user of this program, it'll never be
commercial or useful to anyone outside a very small
group of nerds like me who are interested in
statistics and entropy.
This was the only real GUI application I ever wrote
and it was tough enough under Carbon. The thought of
the amount of work involved just to change the GUI
portion to build correctly in XCode is enough to make
this a command-line only application. In fact, that's
exactly what it is under Windows and Solaris. Maybe
command-line is the way to go for OS X as well...
--- Laurence Harris <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> On Jun 13, 2007, at 8:10 PM, Tony Scaminaci wrote:
>
> > I have an old application that's 100% carbon and
> was developed
> > under OS 9 just before the advent of OS X. I
> recently tried
> > bringing it into XCode from Codewarrior and that
> was a total
> > disaster. While I got it to build using
> heroic-style antics, it
> > crashed in numerous places so I finally gave up.
> So here I sit,
> > trying to figure out what to do with this app that
> I still want to
> > use. Dump it forever, go through the pain of
> bringing it into the
> > modern world of XCode, change the entire user
> interface to Cocoa?
> > What to do, what to do...
>
> Here are some options:
>
> - Sit down with someone at Apple who can help you
> through it.
>
> - Hire someone who's proficient with this kind of
> thing to do the
> conversion for you.
>
> - Rewrite the whole thing from scratch in Cocoa.
>
> Larry
>
> > So far, my solution is to do nothing. The carbon
> version runs fine
> > under OS X, at least on the PPC platform. I tried
> running it under
> > Rosetta on my MacBook Pro and most of it ran
> correctly...and then
> > the ole' crash. So I guess it won't be running on
> my brand-spanking
> > new MacBook any time soon. I have a full time job
> and this looks
> > like way too much work to convert. If I ever need
> to update it, I
> > can always boot back into OS 9 and run
> Codewarrior. But how it'll
> > ever get to the Intel platform is beyond me...
> >
> > Tony
> >
> > On Jun 13, 2007, at 2:45 AM, Jerry wrote:
> >
> >
> >>
> >> I'm one of the niche people who need 64-bit - we
> deal with 200+Gb
> >> images all day. We're using a cross-platform
> toolkit to run on
> >> Mac, Windows and Linux, The Mac stuff is all
> Carbon-based and this
> >> is going to be a real blow and will probably
> spell the end for our
> >> product on the Mac. The other platforms already
> have 64 bit
> >> versions - we've just been waiting for 64 bit
> support on the Mac.
> >> I suspect the Mac version of our app is probably
> just going to
> >> fade away. There's no chance we're going to
> switch toolkits.
> >>
> >> Jerry
>
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