[MACTCL] Porting app to macosx

[Ramon R. <ra...@co...>]

  Hello,

 I am porting these days a Windows/Linux app into MacOSX. The process
is going reasonably well. However, there are a few point where I would
highly appreciate the help of the MAC-TCL experts.

 1. The most important one. How can I change the name and contents of
the first-left menu that is automatically created with name "Wish" or
"Tclkit". I know about the $menu.apple trick, but I have not been able
to change the name of the menu from "Tclkit" to my app name.

 2- For testing, I have instaled ActiveTCL, however, when I double-
click a TCL file, it does not open. If I use the "Open with" and
select wish, Wish open but does not load the TCL file. What to do?

 3- I understand that, to create a MacOSX app, I need to create a
directory named "MYAPP.app" and recreate manually inside the files/
directory structure similar to other apps. Is there a better/simpler
method to do it?

 4- Once the app is created, I want to create  a dmg virtual disk
with hditool. It is very similar to a ZIP file and will contain the
MYAPP.app, a README and the license. The user will have to copy
manually the app to /Applications. Is this the best way to distribute
and app? Does it respond to user expectations?

 5- In Windows/Linux the drag&drop can be made with tkdnd. The copy/
paste of images with several tricks. Access to the tray with other
packages. How can these things be done in MacOSX?

 I think that the most important points are listed here. I shall
really appreciate some help for some/all these points and/or any other
point that someone can consider important for porting an app into
MacOSX.

PS: As a nice off-topic point, recently I have been testing strongly
Ubuntu and MacOSX. Of course, Mac is better in avoiding the strange
problems about hardware compatibility typical of Linux but only
judging the user interface, I would say that the gnome in Ubuntu is
going close or even imporoving the nice MAC GUI.


Ramon Ribó