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native look on mac

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Marc Santhoff

Hi,

as a FreeBSD and sometimes Windows user I have to ask:

If a program is made with lazarus/fpc for Mac, does it have the native look and feel Mac users love their machines for?

Or is there some helper library or technique involved making such programs an alien on Mac (I don't even know the names ;)?

TIA,
Marc

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zeljko
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Marc Santhoff wrote 6 lines
Hi, as a FreeBSD and sometimes Windows user I have to ask: If a program is made with lazarus/fpc for Mac, does it have the native look and feel Mac users love their machines for?

Yes, with current lazarus you can use carbon or qt widgetsets under mac, both produce native look.

Or is there some helper library or technique involved making such programs an alien on Mac (I don't even know the names ;)?

No

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Marc Santhoff
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zeljko wrote 26 lines
On Saturday 17 of September 2011 13:48:03 Marc Santhoff wrote: > Hi, > > as a FreeBSD and sometimes Windows user I have to ask: > > If a program is made with lazarus/fpc for Mac, does it have the native > look and feel Mac users love their machines for? Yes, with current lazarus you can use carbon or qt widgetsets under mac, both produce native look. > Or is there some helper library or technique involved making such > programs an alien on Mac (I don't even know the names ;)? No

Thank you!

Marc

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Marc Santhoff
to zeljko: Yes, with current lazarus you can use carbon or qt widgetsets under mac, both produce…
zeljko wrote 18 lines
On Saturday 17 of September 2011 13:48:03 Marc Santhoff wrote: > Hi, > > as a FreeBSD and sometimes Windows user I have to ask: > > If a program is made with lazarus/fpc for Mac, does it have the native > look and feel Mac users love their machines for? Yes, with current lazarus you can use carbon or qt widgetsets under mac, both produce native look.

OK, I looked around that stuff a bit. Having to use Carbon does mean this is a dead end regaring newer OS X version and 64 Bit, isn't it?

Are there any plans to support MacOS's Cocoa API?

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Mattias Gaertner
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Am Samstag, den 17.09.2011, 15:49 +0200 schrieb zeljko: > On Saturday 17 of September 2011 13:48:03 Marc Santhoff wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > as a FreeBSD and sometimes Windows user I have to ask: > > > > > > If a program is made with lazarus/fpc for Mac, does it have the > native > > > look and feel Mac users love their machines for? > > > Yes, with current lazarus you can use carbon or qt widgetsets under > mac, both produce native look. OK, I looked around that stuff a bit. Having to use Carbon does mean this is a dead end regaring newer OS X version and 64 Bit, isn't it? Are there any plans to support MacOS's Cocoa API?

A cocoa backend has been started, but afaik no one is currently working on it.

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Marc Santhoff
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18.09.2011 16:10, Mattias Gaertner wrote: > A cocoa backend has been started, but afaik no one is currently > working on it. I will start a slow development as soon as I receive my mac.

Thanks again to anyone clearing up things here.

Marc

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