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Re: WinBottler - Turn your Windows apps into Apple ones
Posted: Thu Feb 11, 2010 9:28 am
by Antonio Linares
Massimo,
We are going to review (hopefully today) how fast we can have those classes ready
Re: WinBottler - Turn your Windows apps into Apple ones
Posted: Thu Feb 11, 2010 10:46 am
by Antonio Linares
Re: WinBottler - Turn your Windows apps into Apple ones
Posted: Thu Feb 11, 2010 10:58 am
by Massimo Linossi
Great news !!!
Give me a sign when Fivemac is ready for printing, and I'll place the order.
Thanks a lot.
Massimo.
P.S. One little question. In Windows, for making the dialogs, we use the Resource
Workshop. In Mac, what can we use ? And for the dialogs already made, is possible
to import them in the new system ?
Re: WinBottler - Turn your Windows apps into Apple ones
Posted: Thu Feb 11, 2010 11:33 pm
by Antonio Linares
It may be more complex than we thought but we already have some progress
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#include "FiveMac.ch"
function Main()
PrinterSelect()
return nil
Re: WinBottler - Turn your Windows apps into Apple ones
Posted: Thu Feb 11, 2010 11:42 pm
by Antonio Linares
Massimo,
OSX provides "Interface Builder" to draw the resources but they use a different format than the used in Windows.
Actually coordinates have to be copied "by hand" though we could have a tool in the future to do it automatically.
Re: WinBottler - Turn your Windows apps into Apple ones
Posted: Fri Feb 12, 2010 7:16 am
by Massimo Linossi
Wow, you're great !!!
Is there the possibility to start to develop with a beta release ?
Thanks a lot a many compliments for your work.
Fivemac is like LOST. Every moment there is surprise
Massimo.
P.S. If you give me some hints, I can help you to convert some classes to Fivemac.
Re: WinBottler - Turn your Windows apps into Apple ones
Posted: Sat Feb 13, 2010 12:37 pm
by Antonio Linares
Massimo,
Still a (long?) way to go, but we are already printing and OSX provides the preview automatically!
TestPrn.prg
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#include "FiveMac.ch"
function Main()
PrinterSelect()
return nil
function PrinterPaint()
DrawText( 50, 200, "Printing from FiveMac", CreateFont( "Arial", 20 ) )
return nil
Re: WinBottler - Turn your Windows apps into Apple ones
Posted: Sat Feb 13, 2010 6:00 pm
by Massimo Linossi
WOW
Another great step. Great work Antonio. I'll send you a beer.
Have a nice weekend.
Massimo.
Re: WinBottler - Turn your Windows apps into Apple ones
Posted: Sat Feb 13, 2010 6:39 pm
by Antonio Linares
Massimo,
Windows, OSX and Linux are quite different worlds when we compare their GUIs APIs.
So there is no a straight way to port Windows code to OSX (cocoa) code. In fact, we use FiveWin as a compatibility layer between all of them. FiveWin/FiveMac/FiveLinux set a compatibility wrapper that easier the work of the programmer, and also offers a cross platform learning as once you know how to code in FiveWin you are ready for FiveMac and FiveLinux too
Re: WinBottler - Turn your Windows apps into Apple ones
Posted: Sun Feb 14, 2010 9:44 am
by Antonio Linares
Using colors:
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#include "FiveMac.ch"
function Main()
PrinterSelect()
return nil
function PrinterPaint()
DrawText( 50, 150, "Printing from FiveMac", CreateFont( "Arial", 20 ), CLR_BLUE() )
DrawText( 50, 200, "Printing from FiveMac", CreateFont( "Verdana", 20 ), CLR_GREEN() )
DrawText( 50, 250, "Printing from FiveMac", CreateFont( "Times Roman", 20 ), CLR_RED() )
return nil
Re: WinBottler - Turn your Windows apps into Apple ones
Posted: Sun Feb 14, 2010 10:19 am
by Massimo Linossi
Are you working today ? Your wife will not be happy...
Have a nice day.
Massimo.
P.S. You're making an incredible work. Compliments
Re: WinBottler - Turn your Windows apps into Apple ones
Posted: Mon Apr 01, 2013 4:59 pm
by Antonio Linares
Another utility to run Windows apps on Mac OSX:
http://www.winonx.com/I have not tested it myself yet. I think it may the same technology as WinBottler with the difference that WinOnx is a commercial product, but I may be wrong...