README.osx

BUILDING AND INSTALLING FLTK UNDER APPLE OS X

    The support for OS X on FLTK2 at this time is in alpha stage. FLTK1.1.6
    offers full support for OS X based on Carbon and QuickDraw. There is also
    a flag to compile a somewhat experimental Carbon/Quartz version of 
    FLTK1.1.6.
    
    Currently, and experimental port of FLTK2 compiles successfully using
    Quartz by running the following commands from a shell window:
    
      > autoconf
      > ./configure --enable-debug
      > make
      > test/demo
      
    Not all demo applications will be compiled. A few test will fail and abort.
   
    Only a subset of FLTK2 is currently supported on Apple's OS X using 
    Carbon and Quartz as the core libraries. We will improve the Mac support
    as need, but we would also like to ask our users to contribute bug 
    reports, bug fixes, and code improvements. 
 
     - All standard widget types including Menus and GlWindow are supported. 
     - Bitmap support is fully implemented, pixmap support is somewhat of a hack 
       though and does not include grayed out images. 
     - Image creation and drawing is very buggy an likely to crash.
     - Pie and Arc code draws additional lines.
     - Text editor does not support fractional character lengths.
     - UTF 8 is not supported.
     - fltk::Window as a subwindow is not supported.
 

    Matthias Melcher