jadewolfcd opened this issue on Feb 07, 2007 · 46 posts
svdl posted Wed, 07 February 2007 at 2:41 PM
As far as I know, Poser 7 runs just about as well on a Mac as on a PC.
There's two drawbacks to switching to Mac, one major, and one minor.
The minor drawback is that patches are usually released earlier for PC than for Mac, due to the larger user base. I seem to remember that Poser 7 was built as a universal binary, however, which would mean that the same patches would apply to both PC and Mac. So maybe this is not an issue at all.
The major drawback is the lack of Tkinter support on Mac OSX. Which means that many, many useful Python scripts, both commercial and free, will not work.
This is not e-frontiers fault or responsibility. Tkinter is part of the Python libraries, and the Python community simply hasn't ported Tkinter to the newest version of Mac OSX.
Poser 7 also has limited support for wxPython, an alternative to Tkinter for building user interfaces. wxPython runs fine on both PC and Mac.
wxPython support appeared only with Poser 6, so older scripts will definitely not use it.
The pen is mightier than the sword. But if you literally want to have some impact, use a typewriter