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Updated some wxOSX related information.

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Dimitri Schoolwerth
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@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ supports are Windows (Windows 95, NT, 2000, XP, Vista) including its
mobile variants (Windows CE, PocketPC, Windows Mobile), Linux and
Unix using the GTK+ 2 toolkit (minimum version is GTK+ 2.4, more
recent features are used when available) and Mac OS X (minimum
version 10.4 Tiger, both Intel, PPC and the Universal Binaries for
version 10.5 Tiger, both Intel, PPC and the Universal Binaries for
both are supported). wxWidgets includes many code pieces for
optimising dialog and general layout for small screens such as those
of the recent netbooks and mobile phones and tablets.</P>
@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ tries to both make use of new features of the different operating
systems and support older systems for as long as possible and as long
as supporting them does not hinder development for up-to-date
systems. This is especially true for OS X and GTK+ 2 and it was
therefore decided that OS X versions older than 10.4 Tiger and GTK+ 2
therefore decided that OS X versions older than 10.5 Leopard and GTK+ 2
version older than 2.4 are no longer supported. The wxWidgets team
also realized that it could not do everything and that support for a
cross-platform database API was beyond the scope and focus of the
@@ -276,23 +276,19 @@ Touch) including both general wrapping or front-end classes for much
of the GUI code as well as a wrapper for the so called CoreFoundation
classes of OS X, which are responsible on all OS X variants for
string manipulation, font support, graphics and other basic
functionality (CoreImage and CoreVideo have recently been added by
Apple) and toolkit dependent code for the Carbon, Cocoa and Cocoa
Touch API. The Carbon variant is the core of what used to be wxMac
and is the most stable and mature version. The reason behind adding
optional support for Cocoa and Cocoa Touch is that Carbon is not
available on iPhones at all and that it has been deprecated for all
64-bit versions of OS X, which is likely to be the default a few
years from now. So while present applications using wxOSX are advised
to use the Carbon backend due its maturity, future developement will
have to focus on the Cocoa backend.</P>
functionality and toolkit dependent code for the Carbon, Cocoa, and
Cocoa Touch API. wxOSX/Carbon is the core of what used to be wxMac
and is now deprecated in favour of wxOSX/Cocoa. Existing applications
are encouraged to switch to wxOSX/Cocoa as Carbon is a deprecated OS X
feature, not available for 64-bit GUI applications, and not available for
iOS devices at all.</P>
<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>As part of the restructuring, all remaining drawing
code using the old QuickDraw API has been removed (it was only an
option before) and drawing now always takes place using CoreGraphics.
Likewise, all code using Carbon functions no longer present in OS X
10.4 has been removed to clean-up the code greatly. This is turn
10.4 and 10.5 has been removed to clean-up the code greatly. This is turn
means, as mentioned above, that applications will require a minimum
of OS X 10.4 in order to run, better yet OS X 10.5.</P>
of OS X 10.5 in order to run.</P>
<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>Apart from these large changes, these additional
features can be noted:</P>
<UL>