Is it possible to write a C++ MacOS X screensaver without using Objective-C at all ?

Question

I asked Google how to write a Mac screensaver with c++ and he told me many things about how to create a simple screensaver in Objective-C which I would really like to avoid.

Is there any way to do like under Windows systems where you can put an executable file as screensaver ?

Answer 1

Yes, take a look at this thread:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1587720/how-does-screen-savers-work-on-mac-os-x-and-linux

Answer 2

If you write something in Objective-C, it will become an executable when you compile it, no different than if you do it in C or C++. Since all the native Mac libraries are designed for Obj-C, why do you want to avoid it? Obj-C is a very small superset of C, not that much different really, except for the object system. You could say that if C is English and C++ is English-French pidgin with random additions of Chinese and Navajo (for expressivity, you know), Objective-C is kind of like Scots - very close, even if few people not familiar with it understand it...

I didn't answer the actual question - @Shyam took care of that :D