alt Hacker NewsNo, I think integer coordinates are pervasive in Carbon and maybe even Cocoa. To do fractional scaling "properly" you need to use floating point coordinates everywhere.
No, I think integer coordinates are pervasive in Carbon and maybe even Cocoa. To do fractional scaling "properly" you need to use floating point coordinates everywhere.
Cocoa/Quartz 2D/Core Graphics uses floating-point coordinates everywhere and drawing is resolution-independent (e.g., the exact same drawing commands are used for screen vs print). Apple used to tout OS X drawing was "based on PDF" but I think that only meant it had the same drawing primitives and could be captured in a PDF output context.
QuickDraw in Carbon was included to allow for porting MacOS 9 apps, was always discouraged, and is long gone today (it was never supported in 64-bit).