Re: Converting Palm App to Mac OS X App

[Florent Pillet]

Depends on what your app does. You can use a "porting" toolkit and end 
up with something that looks crappy. Java is a good choice if you do 
not want to learn Objective-C, because you can access most of Cocoa 
(the "native" OS frameworks) using the Cocoa-Java bridge.

You can also make a bare bones C/C++ app using the straight Carbon APIs 
but it's tedious.

The absolute best solution is to write the app using Objective-C and 
Cocoa, and your second best choice is to use Cocoa-Java.

Florent

On 21 févr. 04, at 18:57, stuart wrote:

Has anyone done this?

I have a Palm application where some people are more interested in 
running it on a Macintosh (Apple computer).  What is the best way to 
go about porting a Palm application to a Mac?

My Palm application is written in C, so, I was thinking of gcc and 
some open source graphic library like tcl/tk.  However, that might 
require end users to manage the installation of a tcl/tk library.

I was also thinking about using POSE. But that would, again, require 
end users to install not only POSE but the Palm OS.  And where and how 
they get the PalmOS might not only be beyond them but beyond their 
patients.

Or maybe the best way to go is Java.  I think Mac OS X comes with JRE 
and JDK installed.

Looking for any input...

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