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11011001 · Dec 22, 2001, 06:57 PM

In the current version of developer I have, the december one, the tech docs say that drawsprockets is not supported in carbon. Ok... I checked the header, it says the same thing...

I know that there are frameworks for an OS X version in the system library folder. So, are there any tech docs on these yet?

Thx...

[ 12-26-2001: Message edited by: 11011001 ]

Angus_D · Dec 30, 2001, 05:26 AM

The DrawSprockets Framework on OS X supports only the limited calls that are listed in the headers.

11011001 · Jan 1, 2002, 03:37 AM

Great thanks for posting, I thought that my question was dead, and would never get answered...

Well that news kinda sucks... cus I found drawsprockets. I am still reading the tech docs for OS X...

Also kinda good too, I could never get 16 or 32 bit color using drawsprockets!!!

Can someone tell me if there is any cocoa or carbon thing that can do a screen fade in/out, and a way to do buffering like it was done in drawsprockets? Or better still a cocoa version of game sprockets?

Groovy · Jan 1, 2002, 03:58 AM

not needed

use core graphics

Angus_D · Jan 1, 2002, 12:35 PM

For screen fading, you can use CG or, from Cocoa, DisplayKit. For drawing, use the native APIs in Carbon or Cocoa... I think there's a nice free sprite library for Carbon, but I forget what it's called

11011001 · Jan 2, 2002, 02:55 AM

You guys have given me renewed motivation to continue reading the OS X docs.

I liked drawsrpockets, but to tell you the truth I am elated that I can finally leave carbon, and classic behind, and use something that has not been built and rebuilt upon ideas more than a decade old!!!

This will just take a little time. But the only problem is porting this app of mine to windows after I have finished the OS X version. I am probably going to have to use C++ right, and well cocoa is objective c. So looks like I will have to reprogram it from my design concepts. That way I can be sure that the windows version of the game engine is optimized for that platform...

Too bad the whole world does not use macs huh? Well at least OS X is creating a bunch of converts. And it is good that the guys using BeOS now have an alternative that has a good library of software, and is constantly being updated.

Marshall · Jan 4, 2002, 08:40 AM

11011001, I don't know if this suits your purposes or not, but SDL ( http://www.libsdl.org ) is a free cross-platform API for doing graphics and audio. Supports OS X (using Cocoa), classic Mac OS, Win32, Linux, etc.