I've just read that - thanks to Nokia's financial muscle - the forthcoming Qt 4.5 will also be released under the LGPL. On the Mac, it comes with full Cocoa (and 64-Bit) support, and even Core Animation is included. Sounds to good to be true.
So... How about a Cute BlitzMax?
However... perhaps a "native" Qt wrap might be nice...
Yeah, I was fantasizing about something like wxMax... QtMax, CutieMax, something like that. I was sold on the Core Animation support, and since I still don't want to go anywhere near Objective-C or any other curly-braces-pointer-low-level-language... Well, you get the idea. But on the other hand, wxMax with a Cocoa-backend and with wrappers for some of those fancy Apple-toys would do the same trick, I think.
By the way, and a little off topic: I'm currently listening to Metaltome on RadioBaH. Cool app! :)
I'm kind of considering something along the lines of a "community" project - rather than doing *another one* by myself.
But I dunno how much, if any, support it would be likely to get...
Do we really need another full GUI toolkit?
Well, I don't think that there is a need for this on the Linux and Windows platforms. But OS X screams for a Cocoa back-end, and I don't know if wxWidgets is making any progress on that front at all.
I've seen that Qt and SWT have now working 64-Bit Cocoa ports and that even REALbasic has announced Cocoa support for the middle of 2009. It seems as if Apple successfully killed Carbon.
WxMax and CEGUI cover largely every needs I can have in the GUI field.
I'm rather thinking like DreamLoader since GUI wrapping is a huge amount of work.