[Mono-winforms-list] Does X11 support imply Mac OSX support?

gennady wexler adyler@winisp.net
Sun, 26 Sep 2004 01:02:17 -0700


thank you Peter.

good info on starting points.

I will look into both Carbon (native mac UI which I know pretty well -
approach b in your list) as well as cairo/X11 solution to see how far I can
get.

thinking that approach b would be better as it will give real mac look and
feel (which is what mac users really want and ask for), while X11/XDarwin
graphics interop appears to work really-really slow (looking at gtk/gtk#
ported monodevelop that I am using).

I will weight on both and get back to you with what I find out.


On 9/25/04 11:10 PM, "Peter Dennis Bartok" <peter@novonyx.com> wrote:

>> if such help is still needed. :)
> Most certainly is the help needed and appreciated!
> 
>> I would love to get my hands dirty in doing some work on Mac support. :)
>> where do I begin? I can code and test, have a Mac with latest everything.
> Well, that's the thing. You need to know where to begin, we have little Mac
> know-how. There's two general approaches to doing a mac driver. Approach A
> is using the X11 driver and making things work with it and approach B is
> writing a native (Cocoa, or the C version of it, forgot the name) driver,
> and a corresponding theme.
>