Quote: Originally Posted by TampaDeveloper I plan to release my applications first on Mac. Mac is my favorite environment. I have done extra work simply out of that love. So …

Quote: Originally Posted by flatcatch Can anyone suggest some good places to start? Books? I was checking out The Mac Xcode 2 Book but it's not out yet it looks like. Maybe the…

Quote: Originally Posted by TampaDeveloper I would love to get in contact with a developer that has successfully ported their Objective-C application to a PC and gone on to mark…

Quote: Originally Posted by Person Man Yes but, Applications built using these toolkits on the Mac won't FEEL like Macintosh applications. If an application doesn't FEEL like a…

BTW, if I could write code in Objective-C and deploy it on Windows as a second-class citizen to my Mac version, I would. But it doesn't require a vast amount of evaluating to come…

Quote: Originally Posted by Chuckit Ditto for the ones that wanted to be successful software shops of any kind. It's not as though the phenomenon of developers failing is someho…

Separating the UI from the back end is a bit more labor intensive, but it does future proof your application. For anything but the trivial it's not only a good idea, but mandatory…

Quote: Originally Posted by TampaDeveloper There is no doubt in my mind that there ARE successful companies that make exclusively Mac software. But unfortunately, I cannot prov…

Quote: Originally Posted by Millennium Applications written in these tookits are no more difficult to make "Mac-like" than any other Carbon app, particularly if you start out wi…

Quote: Originally Posted by Chuckit It is not professional suicide to create real Mac-native applications. There is no doubt in my mind that there ARE successful companies…

Quote: Originally Posted by TampaDeveloper http://www.wxwidgets.org/ - An open source cross platform toolkit with a VERY large user-base. There are bindings to this toolkit in …

Quote: Originally Posted by Person Man Yes but, Applications built using these toolkits on the Mac won't FEEL like Macintosh applications. Applications written in these to…

It is not professional suicide to create real Mac-native applications.

Quote: Originally Posted by Person Man Yes but, Applications built using these toolkits on the Mac won't FEEL like Macintosh applications. If an application doesn't FEEL like a…

Quote: Originally Posted by TampaDeveloper Check out: http://www.wxwidgets.org/ - An open source cross platform toolkit with a VERY large user-base. There are bindings to this…

Quote: Originally Posted by Thinine Screw other platforms and their inferior GUI development tools. Obviously a diplomat in a previous life. <GRIN>

Screw other platforms and their inferior GUI development tools.

Hi Flatcatch, Glad you're getting back to Mac. I wrote a few small things in Objective-C but could not get myself motivated to write anything big in it. After being a Java guy, …

Let us know how you make out. Forget a lot about what you know about Visual Studio. It will hold you back.

Thanks guys for the suggestions - I appreciate it. It's helpful to know some of the key differences between the Windows C++ world and Mac Obj-C ahead of time. As far as what I wan…

I'll echo the other comments here. Obj-C is refreshing compared to C++. It'll take you about 2-3 hours to get a handle on it. (Granted, I like C# and Java better, but for Mac de…

I did this by first running through Apple's Currency Converter tutorial (on Apple's dev site). I made sure that I understood completely what every part of the tutorial was doing, …

If you're on Tiger, great. Get Xcode 2.1 and go from there. Since you already know C and OO programming, learning Objective-C shouldn't be a problem. For a good book, there's Stepe…

I've been an Apple guy since forever, have always used a Mac at home (PB 15" 1.5Ghz w/ Tiger currently), and don't miss a day without reading the current Mac news sites. However, s…

Not bad, not bad at all... Thanks for the info/links! I'd iPod It.�