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  1. Scott Small 🇨🇦 @[email protected] ·

    After seeing @ActionRetro ’s video on building a game for classic #MacOS using #REALBasic, I decided to take another look at RB.

    Something that's been on my to-do list for a while is to look into porting #Macstodon to RB, in the hopes of getting around many of the limitations I've run into with MacPython.

    But I hit a problem early on, which is that the only grid controls I've been able to find for RB2/3 either don't work at all on 68k systems, or if they do, they corrupt the font used in the menu bar and window titles.

    This font corruption only happens on 68k, and only on System 7. Installing the Appearance Manager partially fixes the issue - the font no longer changes, but the spacing of the menu bar and window titles is affected.

    Also, building a fat binary executable on a 68k host doesn't work properly for some reason, it will crash when run on PPC. But building it on a PPC host produces a binary that works on both architectures. mastodon.social/@stroughtonsmi

    #macos #realbasic #macstodon