Re: [gtk+osx] gtk for a GNU/configure program?

[Bob I. <bo...@re...>]

On Mar 6, 2004, at 1:43 AM, Ronald Oussoren wrote:

> On 5-mrt-04, at 18:02, Paul Emsley wrote:
>>
>> So I compile buttons:
>> $ gcc `gtk-config --cflags`  buttons.c -o buttons `gtk-config --libs`
>>
>> and run it
>> $ ./buttons
>
> I guess that is the problem, on OSX only binaries in application 
> bundles have full-featured access to the Window Server.
>
> What you should do is create a minimal app bundle for the application 
> and copy the executable into it:
>
> 	mkdir -p buttons.app/Contents/MacOS
> 	cp buttons buttons.app/Contents/MacOS/buttons
>
> I'm not sure if an Info.plist is required, you can copy one from 
> another application.
>
> Now run buttons.app/Contents/MacOS/buttons and you should have a 
> working application.
>
> Ronald
>
> P.S. There is an undocumented function that can be used to enable full 
> access to the window server, someone posted code for that in the 
> PyObjC patch manager (http://sf.net/projects/pyobjc,  and then the 
> patches tab).

What you really should do is just get over it and create the bundles.  
Please don't use my patch :)

If you copy an info.plist from another application, remember to 
actually change the contents as well... there are a couple keys in 
there that could confuse launchservices if you had a couple 
applications with the same info, even if it did seem to work.

-bob