Difference between revisions of "Carbon interface internals"

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*Creating a TForm
 
*Creating a TForm
*Creating a TButton
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*Creating and clicking on a TButton
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*Creating TOpenGLControl with AGL context (see components/opengl/)
 
*Mouse events
 
*Mouse events
  

Revision as of 21:36, 14 January 2006

This page gives an overview of the LCL carbon interface for MacOSX and will help new developers.

For installation and creating a first carbon application read first Carbon Interface.

What is already working ?

  • Creating a TForm
  • Creating and clicking on a TButton
  • Creating TOpenGLControl with AGL context (see components/opengl/)
  • Mouse events

What needs to be done next

  • Create more controls (TLabel, TEdit, TCheckBox, TGroupBox)
  • Keyboard events (KeyDown, KeyUp, Char)
  • Resize events (when form has been resized by user)
  • ShowModal (for dialogs)

How to add a new control

Keys

  • Apple Command key is mapped to ssCtrl due to Apple Guidelines
  • Apple control key is mapped to ssMeta
  • Apple option key is mapped to its inscription, i.e. ssAlt