[tuhopuu-devel] Re: tuhopuu-devel digest, Vol 1 #233 - 2 msgs

[trip]

,,,
I did not want a Cocoa blender , I was just saying that OSX's basic 
open dialog window would be nice. Just like how Blender uses the 
Quicktime OSX cocoa window dialog to choose the codec. So the open 
window should be possible.


On Apr 11, 2004, at 6:00 AM, tuhopuu-devel-request@blender.org wrote:

> Short answer : no.
> Longer one : Blender devs, so far have taken great care to use
> 			as little specific platform code as possible.
> 			This permitt to avoid  many platform
> 			dependant bugs (some are unavoidable but
> 			can usualy be tackled out in the general code).
> 			Adding mac specific stuff is not an option if we
> 			can avoid it.
> 			Only option to have a cocoa look would mean
> 			rewrite a large portion of the GUI code so =
> that's
> 			 it is themable and still use common sources
> 			(ie, like QT). That's not a small project, and =
> in
> 			my opinion even not advisable.
>
> 			My contribution in this area would be to supress
> 			mac oddities, not adding new ones ;)
>
>> Or fullscreen mode. or mergeing Breve into Blender ...
>> http://www.spiderland.org/breve/ That would be super neat !
>>
>
> Problem here is more the reverse. Even if the CLI is cross-platform,
> the editor is not and mac specific. More important this has its own
> language when we have python for this sort of thing.
>
> Check Harkyman massive clone WIP for a roughly similar (but more
> limited in its goals) blender python script. it could be certainly
> expanded in this direction if you need it.