[Doxygen-develop] MacOS X doxywizard status

[George V. <gy...@ma...>]

Dear All,

I have made great progress on creating the Doxywizard application for MacOS 
X. I should say that at some stages I just said I will stop here, but after 
a calm down I went back and continued.

I have built QT 3.2.1 for Mac and compiled doxywizard. I have also created 
the bundle and now doxywizard can start up and edit the Doxyfiles. It can 
also run the doxygen from itself.

The compilation has been done on MacOS X 10.1.5 so the resulting executable 
is able to run 10.1, 10.2 and up.

To Do:
creating icons for doxywizard. For this I would need a rather large image 
(100x100 pixel) that will be used as the recurring element for the 
application and for doxyfile icons. Unfortunately the Doxygen logo (with 
the string in it) is not useful because when it is scaled back to 32x32 it 
would be just an orange rectangle. I would prefer use the gear used in 
doxywizard to run doxygen. I do not know however if this gear is a generic 
one or created for doxygen.

modifying the make files (doxywizard.pro or doxywizard.pro.in or 
doxywizard.t) and adding new files for the application bundle. To create 
the wizard I had to change the makefile.doxywizard link settings. I had to 
remove the X11 libs and had to add some MacOS specific libs. I hand created 
the application bundle and moved its contents by hand into it. This could 
be also automated via the makefile. As I am not really good at the tmake 
automation I might need your help to adjust the root files (*.pro or *.t) 
depending on the supplied makefiles.

creating installation package (disk image file).

Testing on other systems. I will do this on the week-end on 10.2.

Updating Building Doxygen pages. On my progress I want to add help for the 
next ones.

Known problems:
Because macOS X does not support scrolling the tabs as windows does the 
window is very wide. It might not fit on smaller screens. (I am running 
1600x1200). I will measure this. The contents of the tab panels have 
sometimes shrunk to not fill the available space. It usually jumped between 
filled state and shrunken state. It caused controls on the right side being 
hidden. I think this is might be a Qt bug.

The look of the application is just not mac like. It has the aqua widgets 
but it looks a bit weird. This is an inherent problem of Qt applications.

Saving a new (not yet saved) document does not pops up the Save As dialog. 
Neither on Windows.


George Varga