[fpc-pascal] Small OSX GUI apps

[Jonas Maebe]

On 15 Sep 2008, at 21:52, Jon wrote:

> I use KOL (http://kolmck.net) with FPC on Win32 to produce small  
> (exe size) gui applications.
>
> I am a complete newbie to all things Mac and OSX.
> Is there a similar framework available for OSX?

Not that I'm aware of.

> Are any *simple* examples available for creating OSX gui apps?

There's one here (using Carbon): http://svn.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/trunk/packages/univint/examples/

> Also, what is the difference between Carbon, Cocoa, etc

Any answer to that which is not a 10 page article or so will by  
definition be overly simplistic. Carbon is a procedural framework  
offering a rich api for creating Mac programs, Cocoa an Objective-C  
based framework offering a rich api for creating Mac (and NeXTStep/ 
GNUStep) programs. They largely overlap in terms of offered  
functionality, and are partially implemented on top of one another  
(and hence, no strict delimiting is possible of what functionality  
exactly is Carbon and what exactly is Cocoa).

> - and which is best?

Depends on who you ask. But Apple has made it clear that they want to  
move forward primarily with Cocoa.


Jonas