I doubt we would get much of the benefits that Cocoa developers get in Xcode. Sure we will eventually get the Cocoa equivalents of GUI widgets currently done in Carbon, but does that mean we will be getting all the advantages of Cocoa - the way cocoa objects are integrated and linked via messaging etc via the interface builder ?? I think not. We get some added functionality for free - but Cocoa for Xcode users is intimately tied to the Cocoa framework and how everything can be easily put together via Interface Builder and the Objective C language. I doubt we will be getting any of that. As others have stated here - the move to Cocoa will just be a different API - and API that will be mostly hidden from us - since the whole idea of RB is to provide a consistent RB API in a cross-platform manner as the way to code all our apps.
On 1/2/07 18:14, "Brad Rhine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Feb 1, 2007, at 1:09 PM, Daniel Stenning wrote: > >>> Support for Cocoa may attract more people. >> >> The Cocoa support thing was discussed at great length here >> recently. It only >> effects the Mac crowd, and lets fact it - the there are bigger fish >> out >> there to catch than the mac crowd. And wouldn't existing Cocoa >> developers >> miss a lot of the Objective C language features ?. > > The Cocoa switch is, to me at least, primarily a marketing move, both > for REAL Software and for us. I personally have no desire to learn > Objective-C or start using XCode, but I'd love to release a Cocoa > version of my apps, because there are a *lot* of Mac users out there > who honestly and strongly believe that Cocoa > Carbon. Right or > wrong, I don't know, but Cocoa will be a very big selling point for a > lot of people. > > -- > Brad Rhine > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://bradrhine.com > Tangelo: Web Publishing... With A Twist! > _______________________________________________ > Unsubscribe or switch delivery mode: > <http://www.realsoftware.com/support/listmanager/> > > Search the archives of this list here: > <http://support.realsoftware.com/listarchives/lists.html> > _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe or switch delivery mode: <http://www.realsoftware.com/support/listmanager/> Search the archives of this list here: <http://support.realsoftware.com/listarchives/lists.html>
