[Doxygen-develop] Re: MacOS X doxywizard status

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

>>
>>creating installation package (disk image file).
>
>I could probably contribute to this - I've got some shell scripts that 
>whip together the disk image on another project...

Thank you. Naturally making it by hand is my first goal then we should 
automate it.



>>Testing on other systems. I will do this on the week-end on 10.2.
>
>If you can send me the disk image or let us know where to get it, I could 
>also do some testing on it...

My mac is currently off the internet. On the week-end I will put an 
"installer" onto my .Mac homepage.

>>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 OS X way would probably be to have a scrollable row of icons on top of 
>the window, but I doubt that would be easy to squeeze in without having to 
>conditionalize a lot of code :(
>
>>
>>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.
>
>I think it's either live with it or design e.g. a Cocoa app as the 
>frontend. Maybe there's some common code that could be used to get the 
>available options, etc? AFAIK, doxygen itself uses a subset of the Qt 
>libraries for some generic classes (strings, localization, whatnot). I 
>haven't had a look at the doxywizard code yet, but maybe there's some code 
>that could be shared among a Qt implementation and a custom UI frontend? 
>OTOH, it may not be worth the time if the Qt frontend is functional, but 
>just not quite as aesthetic as a native Aqua frontend... :(

I think we have to live with these limitations. Doxywizard uses lots of 
code from doxygen and Qt.

George