How develop Indesign on MAC OS ?

Hi
I develop an Indesign application on window in vc++ using COM ( using Resources for Visual Basic.tlb file).
#include "indesign.h"
INDESIGN::_Application oApplication;
if(oApplication.CreateDispatch(L"InDesign.Application") ==0)
AfxMessageBox(L"Dispatch is not created");
INDESIGN::Documents objDocs = oApplication.GetDocuments();
objDocs.Add(TRUE, covOptional);
INDESIGN::Document objDoc;
objDoc=oApplication.GetActiveDocument();
Now i want to develop indesign on MAC OS.
I am new on mac.
How develop Indesign on mac?
Thanks

For MAC you will have to use AppleScript or Javascript, since COM is a purely WIN technology.
In my opinion you should go with Javascript that way you will be able to share the same codebase both on a WIN and a MAC machine.
Hope this gets you started.
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