Re: QT/OpenGL (Re: was Potential O'Reilly Cocoa books (was Docs))
Re: QT/OpenGL (Re: was Potential O'Reilly Cocoa books (was Docs))
- Subject: Re: QT/OpenGL (Re: was Potential O'Reilly Cocoa books (was Docs))
- From: Brent Gulanowski <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2001 11:11:49 -0400
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From: Chris Gehlker <email@hidden>
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I think you're right about OpenGL and MIDI but I'm changing my mind about QT
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somewhat. The more I thought about it the more it seemed that QT can be
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divided fairly cleanly into media editing functionality and media playback
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functionality. The playback functionality is analogous to OpenGL but the
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editing functionality could be embodied in a Framework.
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I somehow doubt that Apple will do this but I would love to hear different.
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Well they don't seem to be very interested in niche developer tools, only
proprietary software (if you take the general trend of iTunes, iMovie, Final
Cut, and others on the way). Consider how they dropped Quickdraw3D,
essentially the classic/carbon framework for editing 3D, and in no way
comparable to OpenGL, which is merely the playback layer. Fortunately that
was picked up by the Quesa team, though still it is a Carbon tool, not
Cocoa. It seems that the future of public/licensed media editing frameworks
lies primarily outside of Apple. But maybe they've got lots of stuff up
their sleeves eh? Best to not be too down on them; they're working a lot of
late nights methinks.
Once the essential frameworks are done, I suspect they'll quickly start
branching out. If they're listening, I hope they're doing a lot of planning
in terms of what to do in house vs. leave up to 3rd party software
companies. Lots of money to be made in frameworks for basic functionality
that Apple decides not to build. I'm hoping that OMNI or somebody makes a 3D
toolkit for Cocoa and sells it, but I'm probably going to throw myself into
an OpenSource one over the next two years, if Apple doesn't pick up that
ball again (and I'm pretty confident that they won't). I don't know
Quicktime, so I couldn't guess to what extent that was possible there.
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