Re: Building wxt terminal for OS X

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Joe Koski wrote:
> on 11/18/06 10:09 AM, Mojca Miklavec at moj...@gm...
> wrote:
>
>  =20
>> On 11/18/06, Timoth=E9e Lecomte wrote:
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>>> Mojca Miklavec wrote:
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>>>> However, there remain some problems. It seems to run OK, but when I
>>>> click on the window with plot an icon appears (as if there was some
>>>> action in the background which has to be finished first - an
>>>> equivalent to "sand-watch" in windows or linux), so there are proble=
ms
>>>> with "interactivity" of that window. Plotting works OK.
>>>>
>>>>        =20
>>> I am sorry to ask but, as you are not giving any precision about it :
>>> Have you bundled it ?
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>> Sorry, I should have replied to that as well. I "bundled" it in a way
>> that it looks like a nice application on desktop with a nice icon, and
>> running ./gnuplot.app/[whatever is here]/gnuplot from terminal works
>> OK, but when I click on it or call "open gnuplot.app" nothing happens
>> (I would expect that a terminal window would open automatically just
>> as it does under windows).
>>
>> Apart from that: someone would have to build it in a way that would
>> work on both types of processors and not in such a way that one would
>> need to have fink installed in order to have a working application
>> etc.
>>
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>>> If no, then you need to do it.
>>> If yes, then it would mean bundling is not enough and we need to
>>> investigate further.
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>> I doubt that proper bundling would resolve that problem.
>>
>> (I'm probably way too green to be of any help anyway. I just came from
>> "Windows word".)
>>
>> Mojca
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>
> Mojca,
>
> I had the same concern about the lack of a terminal window for gnuplot.=
 I
> haven't bundled mine yet, but when I do, I'll try to build an AppleScri=
pt
> that starts something like iTerm (http://iterm.sourceforge.net/), and t=
hen
> starts gnuplot within the iTerm window. Something like that is probably
> necessary on a Mac. For other applications like maxima and octave, the
> ./gnuplot approach is probably OK.
>
> Joe
>
>  =20
Again, I'm not a Mac expert since I don't have any, but the way I=20
understand things, you need to start gnuplot from a terminal, iTerm or=20
whatever terminal it is. That's independent from the backend that=20
gnuplot uses to plot, which can wxWidgets, aquaterm, or whatever=20
graphics system (correct me if I'm wrong).

Isn't there a default terminal with MacOS ? How do you start octave or=20
maxima on MacOS for example ?

The wxWidgets guys told me repeateadly that bundling is absolutely=20
needed when you build a wxMac application on MacOS, otherwise you=20
precisely don't get the focus. There must be some MacOS-magic that=20
recognises the directory structure and the Info.plist file and handles=20
that as a GUI application.

Best regards,

Timoth=E9e