Hello
Is anyone writing interface modules to the cocoa api?
I need to write a MacOSX gui for perl, without requiring an X server (mainly for
stability reasons - I haven't tested tenon's server yet however. Another reason is
that the X server would need to run on top of aqua, I need to open a window on top of
the other aqua windows and not on another screen; don't know whether tenon supports
this). The only option seems to be to write either carbon or cocoa api interfaces to
perl.
What would be needed to write such a thing?
- does gcc's obj-c run on MacOSX?
- does xs run on MacOSX? What about Inline::C? How to access cocoa through plain C?
- any good examples of such interfaces? (Should I look at Mac::*? Qt modules? ..?)
- where's the best docu for cocoa? I read that openstep is better documented.
- How much time should I plan for implementing only the most important interfaces?
(I do know C, C++ (though not perfectly), the old MacOS api (though I've forgotten
most of it in the mean time), and rather good knowledge of perl.)
christian.
