 |
 | Home | Contact Us | FAQ | Search & Site Map | Link to Us |
 | Sign In | Join | Other 45 Sites in Network |
Mac Forum / Programming / CodeWarrior / July 2003Cross platform apps from adobe and macromedia, how do they do it?
I was just wondering.. Programs like Photoshop, Flash, Illustrator etc. which are released both on Mac and PC... how are they programmed? Obviously the core "engine" part will be in a platform independent language (probably c++), but what about the GUI part? Do Adobe and Macromedia have their own GUI wrapper lib for their applications? Or do they use a commercial cross platform library such as CPLAT? Or is there a PowerPlant lib on Windows as well? Just curious >I was just wondering.. > >Programs like Photoshop, Flash, Illustrator etc. which are released >both on Mac and PC... how are they programmed? Major corporations often have their own internal frameworks but some major products I can't mention use PowerPlant for Windows. Others just use two differnet versions sharing core technology only. Ron  SignatureMetrowerks has moved, our new address is now 7700 West Parmer Lane Austin, TX 78729 Sales and Support 512-996-5300 800-377-5416 Ron Liechty - MWRon@metrowerks.com - http://www.metrowerks.com > Major corporations often have their own internal frameworks but some > major products I can't mention use PowerPlant for Windows. > > Ron You "can't mention"? I'm frankly boggled at the thought that the mere fact that a particular product uses PowerPlant for Windows should be commercially sensitive information. Certainly on the Mac it's often obvious when PowerPlant has been used, the "About ..." is frequently quite happy to confirm this, and in doubtful cases a quick peek at the resources instantly settles the issue. Cue speculation regarding fear of retribution from some other "major corporation" ... Best wishes, Matthew Collett SignatureThose who assert that the mathematical sciences have nothing to say about the good or the beautiful are mistaken. -- Aristotle >> Major corporations often have their own internal frameworks but some >> major products I can't mention use PowerPlant for Windows. >> >> Ron > >You "can't mention"? Many years ago I without thinking posted a list of some of our customers without thinking and without asking. They were not happy, it was a matter of confidentiality. I will never do that again. Ron SignatureMetrowerks has moved, our new address is now 7700 West Parmer Lane Austin, TX 78729 Sales and Support 512-996-5300 800-377-5416 Ron Liechty - MWRon@metrowerks.com - http://www.metrowerks.com > >> Major corporations often have their own internal frameworks but some > >> major products I can't mention use PowerPlant for Windows. [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > without thinking and without asking. They were not happy, it was a > matter of confidentiality. I will never do that again. I've seen instances of some people using PP on the Mac, and MFC (or whatever it is) on Windows, with a nightmarish of #ifdefs. This particular little company was purchased by...well I won't name names but think of mud-bricks! Lately, at some vertical-market-product places I've seen the Qt Trolltech thing. Yuck. Mainly though, I see people using whatever they want, and trying to share code in places. That's what I'm used to. We had some shared code, but mainly wrote independent code. The Windows people used MFC or Visual Whatever it Is. Naturally the middle-managers wanted identical interfaces (which you can interpret as less-than-attractive). I've also seen people who were Windows-only try to make platform-agnostic code without consulting the Mac people ("Whaddaya mean you don't use 8.3 filenames?"), and adding in their own memory manaegment, file i/o (including all the std c stuff), and all sorts of crap. |
Reply to this Message |
 Sign In
 Join
 My Latest Posts My Monitored Threads My Blog My Photo Gallery My Profile My Homepage Start New Thread Enable EMail Alerts Rate this Thread
|
©2009 Advenet LLC Privacy Policy - Terms of Use
This website includes both content owned or controlled by Advenet as well as content owned or controlled by third parties.