Making the leap to Mac 64-bit GUI

[Glenn_Ch]

Right now, the way I am handling the GUI is making a Windows-native GUI and a Mac-native GUI (Carbon).

However, to make to a 64-bit plug-in, I am looking at moving my GUI over to Cocoa for both the 32-bit and 64-bit versions.  (To maintain 3 sets of GUIs would be way, way too much.)

1- Should I try to implement the GUI in Cocoa or should I just move to a cross-platform GUI approach like Qt?

2- If I do go down the Cocoa route... I can't figure out how to get a Cocoa GUI working in 32-bit Photoshop.  In the CS5 SDK, I got rid of the stuff in the DissolveUIMac.cpp file and disabled the if statement in DissolveUIMacCocoa, but this crashes Photoshop with a EXC_BAD_ACCESS error that I can't seem to track down.

Any thoughts?  😕  Spoiled rotten by 64-bit on Windows... updating was so easy.  Thanks by the way to all the helpful people on this forum!!!!!

[ilvar]

I'd personally suggest using Qt - its an easy-to-learn, well-designed cross-platform library; it handles internationalization and has a lot of other benefits. And yes, it integrates reasonably easy with Adobe plugin framework.