[M3devel] UI, Trestle, native... Cocoa??

[Dragiša Durić]

I am about to do a port of some simple (in its GUI aspect) application
to Mac.

I am also discouraged (at least tried to) to near death :) by a guy from
another community, he is 1000% sure Modula-3 cannot be made to support
Cocoa not a "g" of gracefully.

Trestle under X did not took my breath. After peeking and pooking around
sources a bit, I think it was very nice project in its time, and
reasonable one to use 12-15yrs ago, but things moved on. In other words
- I cannot think an explanation to my customer why a GUI appliction of
mine is not more.... GUIsh...

I did a lot of Gtk+ in Modula-3, under Linux (and colleague did his
testing on Windows while he was working with me on it) and from that
experience I know it's not impossible to make native GUI work. 

In other words - count on me for low level binding/interfacing once I
start doing my work on Mac - in few weeks time.

On Mon, 2010-09-27 at 13:12 -0700, Darko wrote:
> I can't say I'm interested in Trestle, and getting compatibility with Cocoa objects might be a hassle, but I am interested in Cocoa support in M3. The things that need to be done to make this happen are:
> 
> - run time support for Objective-C objects, basically the ability to call Obj-C methods and reference Obj-C fields in objects
> - conversion of Cocoa interfaces to M3. This can probably be automated to some degree, I've already gone through the process with Carbon API (admittedly from Pascal interfaces).
> 
> If anyone wants to take on the first task I'd be happy to take on the second. Apple has Obj-C internals doco on the web.
> 
> 
> On 25/09/2010, at 1:42 PM, Dragiša Durić wrote:
> 
> > Is it feasible to make it mora native to Mac? Interesting?
> > 
> > On Sat, 2010-09-25 at 12:31 +0000, Jay K wrote:
> >> It draws all the controls itself.
> >> The Mac version is the X Windows version.
> >> 
> >> - Jay
> >> 
> >> ----------------------------------------
> >>> From: dragisha at m3w.org
> >>> To: m3devel at elegosoft.com
> >>> Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2010 13:41:19 +0200
> >>> Subject: [M3devel] UI, Trestle, native... Cocoa??
> >>> 
> >>> Anybody working UI's with Trestle? It is mapped no native widgets on
> >>> Windows? What about Mac?
> >>> --
> >>> Dragiša Durić 
> >>> 
> >> 		 	   		  
> > 
> > -- 
> > Dragiša Durić <dragisha at m3w.org>
> > 
> 

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Dragiša Durić <dragisha at m3w.org>