[sword-devel] New development on Mac

[Michael Zappe]

On Sep 9, 2007, at 4:42 AM, Manfred Bergmann wrote:

>
> The Cocoa text system is strong, right.
> But I think I did not fully understand what you have in mind.
> I would like to see text rendering much easier than in MacSword. No  
> tables, no css.
> Simple but effective. Using WebKit, words that are tagged in some  
> way throw events when the mouse curser moves over them (like links).
> Using Cocoa text system the mouse possition would need to be  
> tracked to have the same functionality.
>

No, actually.  You can do that using attributes with  
NSAttributedText.  This is one of the experiments I've tackled.   
NSTextView does all the mouse tracking, etc., for you.

I think we can get a lot more flexibility in using Cocoa directly  
versus WebKit, but there are other overarching concerns here that I'm  
not quite familiar with.  It would also probably require a bit more  
specific hacking in the Cocoa stuff, and I can't volunteer too much  
time.

>> Spotlight integration would also /rock/.
>
> We will have Spotlight integration. We have SearchKit indexing  
> already. We just need to create a Spotlight plugin.
> I think this is not that difficult.

That being the case, I may look into how to do this.

	Mike