[fpc-pascal] Mac losing Carbon support in 64bit Leopard

[Florian Klaempfl]

memsom schrieb:
> Rumour has it that the Mac OS X 10.5 will not have 64bit Carbon support
> under Intel. That means that Intel based Carbon based apps will only ever
> be 32bit and that if 32bit support is ever withdrawn (likely?) Carbon will
> be gone.
> 
> I know that the FPC GUI ports under Mac OS X tend to use Carbon.... anyone
> heard any definite reports on this? 

Currently, Cocoa is only usable from ObjC.

> I know OS News has one, but that is
> allegedly still hear-say. Is it even possible/practical to use Cocoa to
> build a GUI and then use Pascal code to do the logic?
> 
> Apaprently Troll Tech is unhappy as they use Carbon in their Qt port for
> Mac OS X...

Well, they have the same problem as any non ObjC user probably: using
Cocoa from non ObjC languages is hard.