Re: Bringing LilyPad into LilyPond

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

Ed Baskerville wrote:
> Specifically, QTKit and PDFKit (inside Quartz)--they're separate from  
> the standard AppKit/Foundation frameworks. On second glance, it looks  
> like the wrappers are very easy to generate, especially since I don't  
> think there are any ObjC protocols to wrap.
>
> The fact that I use QTKit and PDFKit brings up another issue--these  are 
> only available in Tiger and later, and I doubt you'd want to  restrict 
> Panther users from using LilyPond.app. At one point, I had  LilyPad 
> working so that those two frameworks were weak-linked, and  the app used 
> older classes (NSMovieView, NSImageView, etc.) when  launched on a 
> Panther system--the big drawback was that point-and- click didn't work, 
> because NSImageView doesn't know anything about  PDF links. Somewhere 
> along the line I broke this and will try to get  it fixed soon, 
> certainly before trying to put anything into  LilyPond.app.

Have a look at Lilypond.app, which registers itself as a handler for the 
textedit:// protocol. You could launch Preview on 10.3, and use the same 
mechanism there.

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