Pedestal Status
Core system
- Event loop: working; some redesign likely.
- Apple events server: working; some redesign likely.
- Apple events client: working; some redesign likely.
- Menus: working; some redesign likely. Modifying menus at runtime is not yet supported.
- Windows: working. No floating windows.
- Controls: incomplete, but scroll bars work.
- Visual hierarchy (views/panes): working.
- Scrolling subsystem: working, including TextEdit panes.
- Command hierarchy (tasks): working. Idle and repeating chores supported.
- virtual file system: in development. Mac File Manager is supported.
- I/O (streams): incomplete. Input works. Output works, but requires some redesign.
- Threads: to be developed.
- Exceptions: incomplete. Exceptions are thrown where appropriate, caught where critically necessary, and mostly not handled usefully.
- Debugging infrastructure: incomplete.
Add-on classes
Images
- PNG: in development.
- PICT: to be supported.
Files
- resource files: to be supported.
- MacBinary-encoded files: to be supported.
- gzip-compressed files: to be supported.
File systems
- HTTP: to be supported.
- AFP: to be supported.
- NFS: under consideration.