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Cocoa is not C++, but Objective-C. You could use Objective-C++ to use Objective-C objects from C++ code.
Whether you can take your C++ code to Windows, or vice-versa, will depend on the portability of C++ code in question. In particular, whether the libraries the C++ code relies on is portable. Which IDE is used to create the C++ code is not much of a factor.
You might also want to read this recent thread: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1180274/ while the IDE used to write the code will not matter, you will likely use different code for the two platforms to develop your GUI unless you use something cross-platform like wxwidgets. If you do your code will generally look a bit "foreign" on all systems so YMMV.
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What is the example of an application with a x-platform GUI that actually looks good? Games do not count. I can't think of one. Can you?
Are you serious?! VisIt neither look nor feels anything like a native Mac OS X app.
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I agree it doesnt look native... but it looks good! or atleast imho it does
or maybe i'm just so used to linux I don't recognize it.. and visit looks 20x better than TecPlot or FieldView on a mac
ok ok.. how about Qt
There are many things I don't know
I don't know what VisIt is, but I know that it doesn't look great on mac, linux, and windows. Whatever it is can look great on AT MOST one of the three.
I don't know what VisIt is, but I know that it doesn't look great on mac, linux, and windows. Whatever it is can look great on AT MOST one of the three.
The answer to the first question is Yes. One important hint at the beginning: Objective-C files have the suffix .m, Objective-C++ files have .mm (two emms). This should spare you some hours of frustration.
Aside from that, its XCode and Cocoa, not Xcode and Cacao. And you won't run into problems different to any other cross-plattform code. Which means: You may experience a lot. Starting-Hint: Be very careful with templates, try to stay away from STL if possible. They do not always compile or even behave the same way on different platforms/compilers/configurations.
As far as I could tell that's what VisIt uses. http://visitusers.org/index.php?title=Description_of_VisIt_libraries
From the screenshots it looks like it.
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Cocoa isn't any language, it's a framework. /nitpick
A lot of Cocoa's APIs are in C, too. Most of the Cores, for example.
VLC has platform-specific UI layers. Depending on your version, the Mac OS X UI for VLC is either Carbon or Cocoa.
Loose language on my part. I meant Cocoa is not written in or developed for C++, but Objective-C.