I am happy to say that FLTK 1.3 applications should run just fine on Apple's newest OS. There are three changes that have minor impact on FLTK apps:
1: Apple reversed the direction of scrolling with the two-finger gesture. I t now matches the gesture on iPhones and iPads: moving the fingers upwards will scroll the contents upwards instead of down. This takes a lot of getting used to! This is the case for *all* application on Lion (not only FLTK). It;s fine once you get used to it, but also inverses the meaning of the gesture in case you use it for something else, like zoom. Apple doe not use scrollbars anymore *at all*! We may or may not follow this idea and offer invisible scrollbars as an option. 2: This one is big! Apple has gone the Microsoft path and finally allows resizing of windows from every corner and side! Users wanted that since MacOS 6, and Apple finally did it! FLTK is happy with this new feature and resizes just as you would expect. The little engraved bottom right corner on resizable windows is now gone. FLTK still draws it though, and we should consider removing it if an app runs on OS X Lion or better, and keep if for SL and earlier. 3: Full fullscreen. OS X goes more and more the way of iOS and starts looking like an iPad on steroids. New Apple apps offer a fullscreen mode that covers the entire screen including Dock and main menu bar (this is great for geeks: running the terminal with absolutely no window manager decorations in sight - very techie ;-). We should probably make this option available to users. All in all, I am very happy to say that grandma FLTK, being a few years older than OS X, still holds up very well! - Matthias _______________________________________________ fltk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.easysw.com/mailman/listinfo/fltk
