SWT and AWT

Wed Dec 3 02:01:00 GMT 2003

On Dec 2, 2003, at 17:53, Bryce McKinlay wrote:
>> There arn't any licensing issues with cocoa afaik, since its part of 
> the OS. In any case, cocoa and MFC are high-level APIs much like AWT 
> itself. Its probably better to use lower-level APIs to implement AWT, 
> both for efficiency and because its probably necessary in order to 
> implement AWT accurately. On Mac OS X, the right API would be 
> HIToolbox, which is an object orientated C API, somewhat similar to 
> GTK.

Note Cocoa is not build on top of HIToolBox at all.
Also if you build it on top of Cocoa, you can also build it on top of 
GNUStep which is
the free version of OpenStep (like Cocoa but an older standard) and 
there would be no need
to use GTK at all :).
Thanks,
Andrew Pinski