On Jun 12, 2007, at 2:20 PM, MacArthur, Ian ((SELEX)) ((UK)) wrote:

>> There are QuickDraw and Quartz APIs; IIRC the QuickDraw window APIs
>> are largely implemented on top of the Quartz window APIs, which are
>> all part of the "Carbon" layer.
>
> Ah, OK, I guess that makes some sort of sense.
> Without any relevant knowledge, I'm guessing there's no simple mapping
> between them then? So that converting is not going to be trivial?

All examples I found were written in Objective C, and it took me a  
while to find out that Objective C elements can be used from C++ as  
well. But I have not looked any deeper into all this.

>> (Basically, QuickDraw is emulated on Mac OS X, so that older apps
>> that were originally written for OS 9 and earlier could be ported
>> more easily...)
>
> And the Apple support in fltk initially came from Matthias' early port
> which was for OS 9 or such I think...?

Yes, for MacOS 8 ;-). It was quite a task to get from Quickdraw to  
Quartz for the drawing. But eventually the rest must be ported as well.

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