That is a cool discovery! It would be a game-changer for us, assuming Apple also committed to long-term support for Cocoa and Objective-C. Life would be so much sweeter if we only had to write apps once for all PCs. I'd prefer to do it on Xcode rather than Visual Studio.
In 2001 we contracted the Windows port with subs who short-cutted by using QuickTime DLLs to run Mac system calls. It still required about 50% MFC, and years of user hand-holding for installs. VectorWorks did the same thing. Users who ran both apps simultaneously saw painfully slow screen refreshes. However, Apple-kosher would presumably avoid all that. Casey McDermott TurtleSoft.com On Tue, Nov 12, 2019 at 3:00 PM Richard Charles <rcharles...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Nov 11, 2019, at 6:05 PM, Turtle Creek Software via Cocoa-dev < > cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com> wrote: > > > > Unfortunately, software for any vertical or specialty market has to deal > with Mac market share. > > > > > I just downloaded iTunes 12.10.2.3 (64 bit) for Windows 10 Pro. It runs > great, looks great, no crashes. An examination of application files shows > dlls for CoreFoundation, CoreText, Foundation, CoreGraphics, Objective-C, > etc. This is a Cocoa application. > > Why can't Apple provide tools so that outside developers can also do this? > > --Richard Charles > > _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
