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tyler69:
This is also an area that I don't love (https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php/topic,115676). Interestingly enough, although it's about sharing the code, the behavior is different. In windows, the top menus open up as soon as you hover over them when one is already open (as it should happen in macOS) but in the macOS version you need to click on each menu item when moving the cursor.
Awesome Donkey:
It's worth pointing out MC uses its own system for drawing windows and controls and whatnot on all OSes, so that's why it doesn't use the Mac menus, stoplight buttons, etc.
blgentry:
--- Quote from: AllanM on August 19, 2019, 11:31:55 pm ---I'm not even asking for "mac only" features. I was just hoping for a basic Mac feel. I was hoping whatever tool MC uses for cross platform development (mono?) would support/respect some underlying OS settings and standards.
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I agree.
To add on to what AD said: JRiver wrote it's own window drawing, menuing, etc routines for each OS, using the base OS toolkit as I understand it. Very basic, below the level of most integrated environments. So they have very fine control over what happens. But I don't think they spent a large amount of time tooling the Mac version to conform to Mac standards for look and feel. I do not know the technical details.
I'll bet it was a long endeavor to start with. I continue to hope they will make it more Mac-like, but I have a feeling that the cost to benefit ratio doesn't seem high enough for them at the moment. Maybe that will change at some point. Maybe not. Seems like a man-month or more of development time to me, but what do I know?
Brian.
Awesome Donkey:
I don't know, other than the menus not being "Mac-esk" setting MC in retina mode at 110% size looks pretty nice, especially with either the ModernCards Grey Edition or the ModernCards Dark Edition skin being used.
tyler69:
Well, the full-screen mode is another thing that is not "Mac-esk". The modern cards skins are the only ones that somehow fit into macOS imo, however, all the skins do not look/behave like all the native MacOS applications (rounded edges, icons on top) but as I said: these things come up from time to time and I am with blgentry on this, JRiver does not seem to see this as a necessary change.
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