On Feb 17, 2007, at 10:52 AM, Daniel Stenning wrote:
As someone who clearly has detailed experience of both Cocoa and
RB, how
hard ( technically/architecturally )in your opinion would it be to
bring out
a future version of RB that allowed ont to program DIRECTLY to the
COCOA
API, bypassing the RB GUI frameworks ( and maybe non-gui)- for those
programmers who only need to write OSX apps, but would prefer to
use the RB
language and IDE ?
...
...
I meant of course - WITHOUT using declares and plugins...
Well that depends on what REALbasic forcibly takes control over. RB
5.5 and some later versions (I'm pretty sure this is corrected now?)
rebuilt the menu bar constantly so you couldn't use declares to
modify menu items even despite technically being able to do it. There
could be similar things in the Cocoa RB framework. I don't know.
In general though, depending on (as Charles said) how even handling
works, and how subclassing Cocoa classes works and being able to
handle selectors etc etc, all it would require is a massive declare
library and you're done.
--
Seth Willits
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