Apple Windows apps?

[Ashley Aitken]

On 16/06/2007, at 10:25 PM, Finlay Dobbie wrote:

> On 16/06/07, Ashley Aitken <mrhatken at mac.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 16/06/2007, at 9:53 PM, Finlay Dobbie wrote:
>>
>> > On 16/06/07, Ashley Aitken <mrhatken at mac.com> wrote:
>> >> If the right Core* bits have been ported then Cocoa (and/or  
>> Carbon ?)
>> >> should work.  Shouldn't it/they?
>> >
>> > In a word, no.
>>
>> Please elaborate.  What am I missing?
>>
>> I thought Apple has been factoring out all the core stuff and then
>> Cocoa and Carbon were modified to work on top of them.
>> CoreFoundation, Core* ... (the necessary graphics and other parts of
>> the layer below the Application Frameworks).
>
> That's a gross oversimplification.

And that's not an elaboration.

> Also, it's patently obvious if you
> go look at Safari for Windows that it's not a Cocoa application.

I haven't run Safari on Windows but I have seen the screenshots on  
apple.com.

How can you tell it's not a Cocoa app?

I don't think the obvious things (like the menu bar in the window)  
preclude it from being a "Cocoa on Windows" app.

Remember, that's the whole idea of using layers - things underneath  
can be implemented differently (i.e. using Windows libraries below).

So again, why are you so sure its not a Cocoa application?  I'm not  
sure it is, but I would like to know why you are so sure it isn't.

Cheers,
Ashley.


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