Greetings

1) Where can I find good information on helping me with the transition from
PC programming to now Mac programming? Current PC experience is Delphi 6
and C++. IS there anything available?

2) Is it possible to write cross compatible applications and if so using
what basis on the the PC and the MAC side?

Thanks in advance

In article <elbRb.118714$I05.2274839@twister.tampabay.rr.com> ,
"Barry Fawthrop" <barry@ttienterprises.org> wrote:

> Greetings
>
> 1) Where can I find good information on helping me with the transition from
> PC programming to now Mac programming? Current PC experience is Delphi 6
> and C++. IS there anything available?
>
> 2) Is it possible to write cross compatible applications and if so using
> what basis on the the PC and the MAC side?
>

You may want to take a look at RealBasic (http://www.realbasic.com/)

This is a Visual Basic-like programming environment that can create
executibles for Mac OS X, Mac Classic OS, and Windows from a single
code-base.

Or there's always Java1

Alan Zisman <alan@nospam.zisman.ca> wrote in message news:<alan-038A51.16260126012004@news.vf.shawcable.net>...
> In article <elbRb.118714$I05.2274839@twister.tampabay.rr.com> ,
> "Barry Fawthrop" <barry@ttienterprises.org> wrote:
>
> > Greetings
> >
> > 1) Where can I find good information on helping me with the transition from
> > PC programming to now Mac programming? Current PC experience is Delphi 6
> > and C++. IS there anything available?
> >
> > 2) Is it possible to write cross compatible applications and if so using
> > what basis on the the PC and the MAC side?
> >
>
> You may want to take a look at RealBasic (http://www.realbasic.com/)
>
> This is a Visual Basic-like programming environment that can create
> executibles for Mac OS X, Mac Classic OS, and Windows from a single
> code-base.
>
> Or there's always Java1

Xcode (OS X IDE, comes with OS X) and developing in Objective C is
similar in a lot of ways to Delphi (Haven't done Delphi but worked a
bit in C++Builder). Objective C can be picked up quickly, nowhere
near as much stuff to learn as C++. There is a lot to master about the
frameworks that support an app just like the underpinnings of Delphi.
A good book is Cocoa Programming for OS X by Aaron Hillegasse.

Right now I am maintaining a command line app (Lua interperter with
specialized extensions to support the company's embedded systems) on
OS X and Windows. This is NOT a GUI app thus skips a lot of
conversion problems. About 90% of the code is common, the major
sections that differ have to do with serial I/O, and threading.

Also if you want more justification for learning about OS X
programming, what you learn there applies amost directly to Linux.
There is more similarity between Linux and OS X than with Windows.
The API for most system related things is the same between the two,
the threading model, socket model and I/O model. Also if you use
various tool kits GUI apps can be portable between them too.

--jim

in article elbRb.118714$I05.2274839@twister.tampabay.rr.com, Barry Fawthrop
at barry@ttienterprises.org wrote on 1/26/04 8:35 AM:

> Greetings
>
> 1) Where can I find good information on helping me with the transition from
> PC programming to now Mac programming? Current PC experience is Delphi 6
> and C++. IS there anything available?
>
> 2) Is it possible to write cross compatible applications and if so using
> what basis on the the PC and the MAC side?
>
> Thanks in advance
>
>

In a word: UNIX!


Kind Regards,
Nathaniel
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