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Hey Cliff, I just wondered: Have you toyed again with the idea of porting Xion to OS X? With most of the mac users being visually demanding people I think many of them would welcome the Xion eye candy. But by no means do I want to push you, I know how much work and trouble it would be to port the code and I really appreciate your dedication either way. It just crossed my mind

doubt it will happen anytime soon

With most of the mac users being visually demanding people

heheh, well seems silly to move to that if they don't support Xion (well thats just 1 reason lol)

Actually, I'm not 100% sure, but couldn't you use something like Crossover?

There are a couple of windows emulators as well.

Have you tried this?

Cliff

Don't own a Mac

But perhaps anybody here who does wants to check it out?

Yet, Crossover and any similar tool that I know are based on Wine - and with Wine it definitly doesn't work. That is, it actually operates smoothly without any problems, the only one of all things that doesn't work is: the shimmer interface It places a black box instead of the player (playlist etc. works). The reason is that Wine does not yet fully implement all Win API functions, UpdateLayeredWindow, which I guess you use, is still a stub. When they finally implement them (which will probably take years) it should work fine.

There's of course the possibility to use a virtuel machine and I believe to remember that Parallels Desktop has a mode called "Coherence" where it hides the Win Desktop and you can move Win apps around like any other. But it's still a VM ... and running a whole second OS at the same time just to be able to use a program whose benefits are being small and fast? Don't know but might be an alternative for some people.

Anyway, I'm a Windows user too, don't let you get distracted by this

I wouldn't mind if Xion was Mac OS X compatible.

[ uberdiablo ] Wrote:I wouldn't mind if Xion was Mac OS X compatible.

You could try running it in CrossOver?

Cliff