Re: [boost] thoughts on a GUI component library

From: Jared McIntyre (jmcintyre_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-12-17 14:41:26

>How about GUIs which simply support floating point coordinates
>natively? I read that Cocoa uses floats for coordinates, and I would
>wildly guess that Avalon will make use if float vectors, as well (at
>least if the fancy 3D integration is remotely useful ;-).
>
>Cheers,
>Michael

Quartz in general uses floats (since it is a vector based system). 
So, even if we were to use Carbon as the primary interface, we'd 
still want floats for Mac work.

Jared