Re: itunes for windows HOWTO ???
Re: itunes for windows HOWTO ???
- Subject: Re: itunes for windows HOWTO ???
- From: "Alex Perez" <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2003 14:37:00 -0800 (PST)
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wxWindows is good for this.
It's fugly though.
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> 2) the UI is a single window, not the multitude of child controls
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(child windows) most Win32/MFC programs set up.
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My theory: the entire window server and framebuffer is wrapped up in the
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application. Re-sizing the iTunes window increases and decreases memory
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usage.
This I highly doubt, but it's possible.
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It would be nice if there was a Cocoa For Windows. It would also be nice
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if it was Windows-y. I love the Mac and all, but jsut has Mac users
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expect a Mac-type application GUI, Windows folks expect a Windows-type
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application GUI.
Apple will never make Cocoa for Windows. The closest thing that will
probably ever exist is GNUstep, which has a very fetal win32 backend.
GNUstep's Foundation (which is called Base) compiles and works extremely
well under Microsoft Windows. GUI (AKA AppKit) is another story, but there
are people who are supposedly working on it. I've used it before, and it
does run, but at this point isn't really usable. It would be, however,
with minimal effort. NeXT once wrote OPENSTEP Enterprise 4.1 and 4.2 for
Windows, and for anyone who has ever used it, they know that while it
didn't feel 100% windows-ey, it came pretty close. The only real hope for
a full "Cocoa"-esque implementation under Windows lies with GNUstep. It
should be noted, though, that many people in the GNUstep project do not
see the Windows backend as a huge priority. Mass interest in it could
likely change that, though.
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While Apple is porting their toolkit to other platforms, a Linux version
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would rock.
Once again, this will never happen, but see GNUstep, at www.gnustep.org .
GNUstep is a (nearly) full implementation of the OpenStep API upon which
Cocoa is based. There are some differences between the two, but in many
instances, code will compile with little more than changing FALSE to NO in
your code, and other sorts of superficial changes.
GNUstep runs on Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, Solaris, HP-UX, and others.
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QT? How about Cocoa? I would love it.
It's simply not in Apple's best interest, from THEIR point of view, to
release the toolkit for other OSes. www.gnustep.org
If anyone has questions about GNUstep, feel free to drop me an e-mail.
Alex Perez
email@hidden
GNUstep Evangelist
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