Re: Porting from Windows to Mac
Re: Porting from Windows to Mac
- Subject: Re: Porting from Windows to Mac
- From: "Andy Bell" <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 1 Nov 2008 14:57:54 +0100
Have you seen http://doc.trolltech.com/solutions/qtwinmigrate/index.html ?
If you need a hand then drop me a line, I have been coding with Qt for the
last 6 years, using it on Mac and Windows. I guess starting from scratch is
somewhat of a sledge hammer solution, but if you really want a native Mac OS
X app then I would use Cocoa anytime, it all depends on the size and
complexity of the project.
Andy
On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 1:47 PM, Jason Stephenson <email@hidden> wrote:
> Rakesh Singhal wrote:
>
>> I do not know about porting Windows code (MFC based) to Mac OS. The
>> existing
>> code is written in C++. As suggested that it is possible then how to do
>> it?
>> Do I need to change the existing code (Windows code) very much. I have not
>> used Qt before this. Does Qt support the MFC?
>>
>
> To answer your last question, "No." Qt is a widget toolkit that serves the
> same purpose of MFC, but does so in a very different way, and unlike MFC is
> inherently cross-platform.
>
> You will basically need to rewrite the program from scratch. There is no
> tool that will automagically turn the MFC code in the application into
> something that will work on Mac OS X or anything other than Windows.
>
> Even a few seconds using Google would have answered your questions.
>
> Jason
>
>
>> Regards
>>
>> On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 4:01 AM, Bill Bumgarner <email@hidden> wrote:
>>
>> On Oct 30, 2008, at 3:14 PM, Tommy Nordgren wrote:
>>>
>>> I suggest you port your app to use the Qt framework from TrollTech
>>>> (http://www.trolltech.com) It is implemented in C++, and the native
>>>> layer
>>>> on Mac OS X is implemented using Carbon and Cocoa.
>>>> You might have to implement some modules in your app differently
>>>> depending on target OS, particularly to get native look and feel.
>>>> The most important thing with using Qt, is that you will be able
>>>> to
>>>> port your app to any unix dialect that uses X windows, as well.
>>>>
>>>> Qt is good stuff, but be very careful going down this path.
>>>
>>> While Qt applications are very portable, the Macintosh Qt apps tend to
>>> stick out like sore thumbs.
>>>
>>> Google Earth, likely one of the most popular Qt applications around, is
>>> certainly an awesomely powerful application.
>>>
>>> But the UI stinks. It looks bad, it doesn't behave like standard Mac OS
>>> X
>>> applications, and it is generally clunky.
>>>
>>> b.bum
>>>
>>>
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