[Lazarus] native look on mac

Mattias Gaertner nc-gaertnma at netcologne.de
Sun Sep 18 10:10:06 CEST 2011


On Sat, 17 Sep 2011 22:22:19 +0200
Marc Santhoff <M.Santhoff at web.de> wrote:

> Am Samstag, den 17.09.2011, 15:49 +0200 schrieb zeljko:
> > On Saturday 17 of September 2011 13:48:03 Marc Santhoff wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi,
> > 
> > > 
> > 
> > > as a FreeBSD and sometimes Windows user I have to ask:
> > 
> > > 
> > 
> > > If a program is made with lazarus/fpc for Mac, does it have the
> > native
> > 
> > > look and feel Mac users love their machines for?
> > 
> > 
> > Yes, with current lazarus you can use carbon or qt widgetsets under
> > mac, both produce native look.
> 
> OK, I looked around that stuff a bit. Having to use Carbon does mean
> this is a dead end regaring newer OS X version and 64 Bit, isn't it?
> 
> Are there any plans to support MacOS's Cocoa API?

A cocoa backend has been started, but afaik no one is currently
working on it.

Mattias
 




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