Re: Building wxt terminal for OS X

[Joe K. <jko...@co...>]

on 11/17/06 5:07 PM, Timoth=E9e Lecomte at tim...@en... wrote:

> Timoth=E9e Lecomte wrote:
>> Ethan Merritt wrote:
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>>> On Friday 17 November 2006 01:33 pm, Joe Koski wrote:
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>>>> on 11/17/06 1:48 PM, Per Persson at per...@ma... wrote:
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>>>>> I still maintain my opinions that
>>>>> 1) building an X11 based wxt  terminal should be straightforward
>>>>> 2) a "native" wxt terminal is going to take a lot of work.
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>>>> I think Per's assessment is correct. The problem is not with wxt, but
>>>> with the necessity for "bundling" wxWidget applications for native
>>>> use on the Mac.
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>>> You call it a necessity, where Per implies that it is simply a
>>> matter of choice between X11 and "native".  Which is it?
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>> A native one is for sure better since X11 is not installed by default on
>> MacOS. The *only* problem we seem to get is this "no-input" issue, which
>> is supposed to be related to bundling, as Joe mentioned.
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> I went back to #wxwidgets on IRC, and got confirmed again that bundling
> should be enough. Let's try to get it right this time.
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> To sum up:
> *get 4.2rc1 from gnuplot.sf.net
> *apply wxmac.diff to src/wxterminal
> *run ./prepare, then ./configure with your favorite options, 'make',
> 'make install'
> You get a working gnuplot with the wxt terminal (assuming you have
> cairo, pango and wxMac installed), but the plot windows don't get the foc=
us
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> Then the bundling stuff:
> *download the attached Icon.plist and wxmac.icns files
> *run the following commands to create the bundle tree:
>     mkdir -p ./gnuplot.app/Contents/MacOS/
>     mkdir -p ./gnuplot.app/Contents/Resources/
>     mkdir -p ./gnuplot.app/Contents/Frameworks/
>     cp ../src/gnuplot ./gnuplot.app/Contents/MacOS/gnuplot
>     echo -n 'APPL????' >  ./gnuplot.app/Contents/PkgInfo
> * retrieve the attached Icon.plist and wxmac.icns files, put them in the
> current directory, and put them at their respective locations in the
> bundle with the following commands:
>     cp ./Info.plist ./gnuplot.app/Contents/
>     cp ./wxmac.icns ./gnuplot.app/Contents/Resources/
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> Then, you're supposed to be all set. To launch gnuplot, do:
>     open gnuplot.app
> or
>     ./gnuplot.app/Contents/MacOS/gnuplot
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> ... and it should be fine now, according to what I've been told on IRC.
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> Joe, could you try again with these instructions ? Thank you very much.
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> Best regards,
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> Timoth=E9e Lecomte

Timoth=E9e,

We're close to a solution, but no cigar yet. I followed your bundle
instructions, and I think I have the correct bundle structure created and
filled. I was a bit confused about which directory I should use to enter th=
e
command

  cp ../src/gnuplot ./gnuplot.app/Contents/MacOS/gnuplot

The ../src indicates that I am in a subdirectory within the 4.2.rc1 build
directory where the directory ./gnuplot.app exists. So I created a director=
y
called Mac_app in the 4.2.rc1 build directory. Correct? At least all your
bundling commands then worked without complaint.

When I try ./gnuplot.app/Contents/MacOS/gnuplot within Mac_app, gnuplot doe=
s
start, and I can plot, but I have the same lack of focus as before.

One more problem. A while back you sent me a second patch to try:

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diff -Naur old/wxt_gui.cpp new/wxt_gui.cpp
--- old/wxt_gui.cpp    2006-10-20 23:36:56.000000000 +0200
+++ new/wxt_gui.cpp    2006-10-20 23:39:36.000000000 +0200
@@ -1330,6 +1330,14 @@
         wxApp::m_nCmdShow =3D SW_SHOW;
 #endif
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+#ifdef __WXMAC__
+        /* allow to get focus even if the app is not bundled */
+        ProcessSerialNumber psn;
+        GetCurrentProcess( &psn );
+        CPSEnableForegroundOperation( &psn );
+        SetFrontProcess( &psn );
+#endif
+
         if (!wxInitialize()) {
             fprintf(stderr,"Failed to initialize wxWidgets.\n");
             wxt_abort_init =3D true;
diff -Naur old/wxt_gui.h new/wxt_gui.h
--- old/wxt_gui.h    2006-10-20 23:36:58.000000000 +0200
+++ new/wxt_gui.h    2006-10-20 23:39:32.000000000 +0200
@@ -159,6 +159,12 @@
 #  include "win/winmain.h"
 # endif
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+#ifdef __WXMAC__
+/* focus hack */
+# include <Carbon/Carbon.h>
+void CPSEnableForegroundOperation(ProcessSerialNumber* psn);
+#endif
+
 /* for cairo_t */
 # include <cairo.h>
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Do I need to rebuild my gnuplot without the second "focus hack" patch? Is
that my problem?

Joe