[JWplugins] End of OSX pre-10.7 plug-in development

[Jari Williamsson]

Hello!

 From now on, the future Finale plug-in updates on the Mac side will 
require OSX 10.7 or later. (Today's updates of "JW Pattern" and "JW 
Staff Polyphony" were the last OSX 10.4 Carbon plug-ins I'll release.)

The future plug-in releases will be based my Cocoa UI framework instead, 
which will provide much more current and powerful technology. The "JW 
Lua" betas have been running running on that for all its releases.

Since the Carbon UI layer (which is a now-obsolete OSX user interface 
technology) contained some serious limitations that were difficult to 
work around, this will give me more opportunities to create plug-ins 
that works the way I want them to work. For example, I can move ahead 
with the "JW Change" and "JW Validate" betas, which were very much 
affected by those Carbon limitations. And there will be future plug-in 
releases that hopefully will go beyond what my previous plug-ins have done.

When the old Carbon plug-ins are replaced by the new Cocoa versions, 
I'll archive the last available Carbon plug-in in the "Outdated 
plug-ins" folders on the tips site.


Best regards,

Jari Williamsson