Re: [Adonthell-devel] "native" dlgedit for OSX

[James Nash]

Oooh, that looks cool!

The differences between apps in X11 and "native" apps on Mac OS X may  
be subtle, but you do notice them. When little things like copy- 
paste, drag'n'drop and window focus behave a bit different to other  
apps it's annoying. (Although I recently found a fix for the window  
focussing which has made using Gimp sooo much better! ^_^). If this  
has the potential to make our tools fit in a bit more nicely on Macs  
then that's great.

Regards,
                        - James


On 24 Apr 2008, at 21:44, Kai Sterker wrote:

> Some weeks ago, when I tried to test the translation preview of
> dlgedit (see adonthell-general), I found the GTK+ installation on my
> iBook broken (something wrong with fontconfig, I believe, preventing
> dlgedit from running). So I had to resort to Ubuntu on the new box to
> try stuff out ... but it bothered me still.
>
> So yesterday I went and had a look what might be a convenient way to
> install GTK+ on a Mac. That's when I ran into
> http://developer.imendio.com/projects/gtk-macosx/ . Looks like there
> is now a Cocoa backend for GTK+, so it can run without X11. Still
> looks like GTK+, though.
>
> While it doesn't make a big difference to me personally (I use X11 to
> run xfig or Gimp anyway), I guess it might make our tools a little bit
> nicer to use on OSX. Moreover, the same website also provides a tool
> that helps with bundling GTK+ based apps. I'm not going to try that
> anytime soon, but in the long run we'll have to provide our tools in
> binary form for platforms other than Linux.
>
>
> Anyway, I let their GTK+ compile script run over night and today I
> simple ran configure and make in adonthell tools to pick up the new
> GTK+. Et voila: dlgedit as a "native" OSX app! :-) The differences are
> subtle, but note how X is not running ...
>
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