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- From: hawkfish@punchdeck.com (Richard Wesley)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,comp.sys.mac.programmer.tools
- Subject: Re: cros-platform (mac-ms-windows) development
- Date: Sat, 17 Feb 1996 07:24:57 -0800
- Organization: Punch Deck Consulting
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- In article <62xwEnGrnTB@softsite.co.at>, wsog@softsite.co.at (Walter
- Sommergruber) wrote:
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- >Kerr Gibson (kerr@math.ohio-state.edu) wrote on 15.02.96
- >about "Re: cros-platform (mac-ms-windows) development":
- >
- >> One question this brings up to my mind. Is there anything out there that
- >> will convert previously created programs from one platform to another- or
- >> does everyone recommend buying a cross platform kit and porting your code
- >> to it?
- >
- >No chance. But I know two tools to compile Windows-MFC applications
- >for Unix - they are not cheap and buggy.
- >
- >> Another issue is what to do about technologies that your program uses on
- >> one platform that do not exist on another. What do people do about that?
- >>
- >> I guess what I'm really saying is, do these cross platform builders really
- >> only work with the most generic of programs or can they be made to fully
- >> utilize the capabilities of the varying platforms? E.g. OLE, applescript,
- >> java, etc.
- >
- >There are features like OLE that are not very simple and where it's
- >hard to implement them on other platforms. But in general, a good cross
- >platform tool should enable you to use most of the features. One
- >good example is the Zinc Application Framework. Under windows there
- >is a concept of notebooks/tabbed queues for a window with several
- >sub-windows which you can reach via tabs. This feature is not
- >available on many platforms, but Zinc makes it usable for
- >Dos, Windows, Macintosh, OS/2 and Unix - with ONE source code.
-
- Is there any framework out there that supports AppleScript in the
- Macintosh builds?
-
-
- - rmgw
-
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