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#10 Mac interface issues
On Mac OS 10.3, using TclTkAqua, the following issues arise:
* Message boxes do not have window headers, and therefore any
message written in the header can't be relied upon to tell the user
what to do. For example: Currently the "Start Run" box does not
have a message saying "Which node do you want to simulate?" This
message was conveyed in the header, which does not exist in OS
X.
* Button sizing is a little off due to the rounded "Aqua" looking
buttons - some of them are too small for the text inside of them.
* In ObjectList objects, the buttons have a white square area around
the round button part. Apparently the button takes up a rectangle
area and draws itself within that. This could also have caused the
"too small button" effect above.
* Combo boxes, which use toplevel windows to host the "popup"
part, still have their window header, which looks extremely silly.
Also, if the combo has an item selected already and it is highlighted,
the popup will appear and quickly vanish as if you had clicked on the
currently selected item already.
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Also:
* Printing from the LatticeEditor doesn't seem to work
correctly yet. I think this problem is due mainly to the
incomplete Aqua version of TclTk. It gave me this error:
XGetImage Failure: XGetImage: only ZPixmap types are implemented
/usr/bin/wish: line 2: 688 Bus error "$(dirname
$0)/../../Library/Frameworks/Tk.framework/Versions/8.4/Resources/
Wish.app/Contents/MacOS/Wish" "$@"
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Added captions INSIDE all of the message boxes, so that they
aren't reliant on the window headers to tell the user what
needs to be done. So that part is fixed.
(That was a stupid thing to have, even if we aren't running
on a Mac. The user doesn't always look at the window header!)
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Try to use X-Windows version on Mac and see how that works.
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See also:
http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/1.1872/osx_aqua.html#AquaProblems
and
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&atid=112997&aid=684319&group_id=12997
(I also had some trouble with clicking in the ListNotebook
not quite working right. I'm not sure if it is a bug or if
Ella was just being slow.)
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See also this bug for fixing the button padding issues:
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=513690&group_id=12997&atid=112997
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And see also:
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&atid=112997&aid=676462&group_id=12997
for information about how the tool tip windows take the
input focus.
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Made all buttons configurable from "optionsDB.tcl" and set
the padding to padX=10, padY=5. This might need tweaking
once I put it on a Mac again, but there should be a good
setting that works for Mac and doesn't look too bad on Linux
and Windows.
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How does the "no header on dialogs" work with opening files
and saving printed outputs?