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| 28 | /*!
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| 29 | \page qtmac-as-native.html
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| 30 | \title Qt is Mac OS X Native
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| 31 | \brief An explanation of Qt's native features on Mac OS X.
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| 32 | \ingroup platform-specific
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| 33 |
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| 34 | This document explains what makes an application native on Mac OS X.
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| 35 | It shows the areas where Qt is compliant, and the grey areas where
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| 36 | compliance is more questionable. (See also the document
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| 37 | \l{mac-differences.html}{Qt for Mac OS X - Specific Issues}.)
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| 38 |
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| 39 | Normally when referring to a native Mac application, one really means an
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| 40 | application that talks directly to the underlying window system, rather
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| 41 | than one that uses some intermediary (for example Apple's X11 server, or a
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| 42 | web browser). Qt applications run as first class citizens, just like
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| 43 | Cocoa, and Carbon applications. In fact, we use Carbon and HIView
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| 44 | internally to communicate with OS X.
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| 45 |
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| 46 | When an application is running as a first class citizen, it means that
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| 47 | it can interact with specific components of the Mac OS X experience:
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| 48 |
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| 49 | \tableofcontents
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| 50 |
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| 51 | \section1 The Global Menu Bar
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| 52 |
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| 53 | Qt does this via the QMenuBar abstraction. Mac users expect to
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| 54 | have a menu bar at the top of the screen and Qt honors this.
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| 55 |
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| 56 | Additionally, users expect certain conventions to be respected, for
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| 57 | example the application menu should contain About, Preferences,
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| 58 | Quit, etc. Qt handles this automatically, although it does not
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| 59 | provide a means of interacting directly with the application menu.
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| 60 | (By doing this automatically, Qt makes it easier to port Qt
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| 61 | applications to other platforms.)
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| 62 |
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| 63 | \section1 Aqua
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