So how did they port iTunes so fast and so well?
Not so much the speed of the port - they could have been working on it for some time, but the quality. It's EXACTLY the same as the Mac verison.
That's quite a feat - I know, I develop for both Windoze and MacOS X. There's a whole lotta stuff behind iTunes, all of which is Carbon.
So, how did they do it with the exact same look and feel? I can't see them doing this all from scratch, too much effort. Maybe they've developed a Carbon library and Aqua widget set for Windows. That would certainly make good architectural sense - abstracting core OS stuff from the rest of the app. Wonder if they use the same thing for the QT Player.
Most importantly, that approach would allow them to port other applications to Windows rapidly - like tools for other lifestyle devices maybe? iPhoto maybe?
That's quite a feat - I know, I develop for both Windoze and MacOS X. There's a whole lotta stuff behind iTunes, all of which is Carbon.
So, how did they do it with the exact same look and feel? I can't see them doing this all from scratch, too much effort. Maybe they've developed a Carbon library and Aqua widget set for Windows. That would certainly make good architectural sense - abstracting core OS stuff from the rest of the app. Wonder if they use the same thing for the QT Player.
Most importantly, that approach would allow them to port other applications to Windows rapidly - like tools for other lifestyle devices maybe? iPhoto maybe?
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Originally posted by stupider...likeafox
Good question, though I really hope they're not going to port any other apps. It just doesn't make sense at a time when hordes of people (at least in my line of work) seem to be switching in order to access exactly these apps.
I don't think hell is going to freeze over every day.
Apple will only port over software that they think will directly (or indirectly) lead to sales and interest of Apple products...
Originally posted by kiwi-in-dc
Not so much the speed of the port - they could have been working on it for some time, but the quality. It's EXACTLY the same as the Mac verison.
That's quite a feat - I know, I develop for both Windoze and MacOS X. There's a whole lotta stuff behind iTunes, all of which is Carbon.
probably used borland's c++ builder
i dont have the vcl analzer here at the moment so i cant
confirm that
but using either bcb or delphi it would be very easy
to write an app
i use both the above tools & coding is a lot faster
than say using vc++ by itself
Originally posted by kiwi-in-dc
Not so much the speed of the port - they could have been working on it for some time, but the quality. It's EXACTLY the same as the Mac verison.
QuickTime is the answer. QT has been a crossplattform API for some time - to get the QT player running on Windows, Apple had to port quite some parts of the ToolBox years ago. Since they have carbonized the stuff on the Mac side, they had to rewrite part of the API on Windows too, but that can't be too bad since they had QT 6.x as a basis.
Could be they also ported some of the CoreFoundation stuff to get a decent UI layer (based on OpenGL?), but this too would have taken place 1-2 years ago for QuickTime player.
I'd venture the guess that the application code is mostly the same across platforms and they spend the last 6 month adding stuff to QT/Win.
Since NeXT had their stuff running on windows (someone still remember YellowBox?), porting iPhoto, Safari et al over would not be really hard - it just does not make business sense.
I bet they were working on this for a long time. Kudos to Apple. Their employees are putting out some ridiculously awesome stuff(except 10.2.8!
How do I report it?
Originally posted by Mac Write
I think Apple will port iChat AV to Windows, then people can buy an iSight and Mac and PC people can video conference, this would also help sell more iSights on the Mac side if there PC friends could video conference with them.
it would also further push QT and most importantly MPEG 4 and AAC audio.
Yet... we don't know when Apple started development work. They may have begun a few years ago. Recently, there were publicized job openings for the development team but this doesn't mean that work didn't begin further back with existing employees.
Even so, I too am amazed at how quickly this was released.
Originally posted by \\/\\/ickes
I have found a bug with the windows app.
How do I report it?
http://www.apple.com/feedback/itunes.html
Originally posted by \\/\\/ickes
I have found a bug with the windows app.
How do I report it?
What is the bug that you found?
Originally posted by jpp1cd
What is the bug that you found?
Originally posted by Nebagakid