Re: Cross-Platform Windows plus Mac

On Oct 11, 5:00 pm, "Chris Shearer Cooper" <chrisn...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> I'm a C++/Windows developer at a small (well, tiny) company, and I've
been
> asked to explore what it would take to create an application that could
be
> built for both Windows (XP + Vista) and Mac.
>
> I've never done any Mac programming, so I was hoping people could send
me
> suggestions for books, web sites, tools, etc. that talk about ways to
> accomplish this.  The application has no UI except for an icon that
lives in
> the system tray on Windows (which would be the ... what? ... on Mac), so
> that makes things easier.  I'm imagining 3 approaches ...
> 1) Have two totally separate codebases, one for Windows, one for Mac.
> 2) Have some code be Windows and Mac specific, and then the core
> functionality be shared code.
> 3) Buy a product like QT
>
> Management has said that if QT is worth it, they'll spring for it, but I
> don't know enough about it to know if (QT + my learning curve on QT) <
(my
> learning curve on Mac + time to sup****t multiple code bases).
>
> Thanks!
> Chris

I think the equivalent of a system tray icon is a menubar icon. I
would think that the easiest approach for something like that would be
to build the application core functionality in ****table C++ and wrap
it in an Objective-C wrapper on the Mac, and C++ or C# on Windows. All
the wrapper would be needed for would be to intereact with the part of
the OS that draws the system tray/menu bar icon. It's not clear to me
that Qt will sup****t building a system tray/menu bar icon in a
****table way.

- Jeff Dutky