On Feb 2, 2012, at 1:59 AM, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:

> Le 2012-02-01 à 21:21:00, Hans-Christoph Steiner a écrit :
> 
>> Cocoa is what Apple calls their native GUI toolkit.  Pd uses Tcl/Tk for the 
>> GUI, so its not Cocoa.  Apple Mail is definitely Cocoa, as are basically all 
>> of the apps that Apple includes.  Something like Firefox is not a Cocoa app.
> 
> Pd is «half» of a Cocoa app, because on one hand Tcl/Tk on OSX is a 
> portability layer over Cocoa, but on the other hand doesn't follow every 
> convention specified by Cocoa, and isn't designed to let a Tcl/Tk app access 
> every existing Cocoa feature either.

Tk/Cocoa is Cocoa, Pd-extended is still using Tk/Carbon.  Hopefully we can 
switch to Tk/Cocoa in 0.44.

.hc


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