Re: [MACTCL] Creating a .app from source

[Damon C. <da...@tc...>]

I tweaked the Info.plist file, and I’m pretty sure it’s right.

Does this work for anyone? Does anyone have this working?


> On May 1, 2015, at 3:25 PM, Kevin Walzer <kw...@co...> wrote:
> 
> You may need to read Apple's docs about configuring the info.plist file to identify the document types your app can handle.  Without that the open event is ignored.
> 
> 
>> On May 1, 2015, at 4:15 PM, Damon Courtney <da...@tc...> wrote:
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>> I had already read through your tutorial, but it didn’t have what I needed. The ‘make embedded’ is what I was looking for. :)
>> 
>> Now, for another one. I’ve created the ::tk::mac::OpenDocument proc in my app, and it opens files properly when I right-click and open with the application, but my app is not responding to drag-and-drop events. I can’t drop a file on the app, and the Tk docs seem to imply that you can.
>> 
>> Does that still work? I’m using the latest Tk tip, so I should be using the new Cocoa stuff (though I’m not sure how I would know).
>> 
>> Damon
>> 
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>>> On Apr 30, 2015, at 8:21 PM, Kevin Walzer <kw...@co...> wrote:
>>> 
>>> On 4/30/15 4:46 PM, Damon Courtney wrote:
>>>> So, once you have a build from source, how do you build a standalone .app on the Mac? build/tk/ contains all the necessary pieces, but I’m not sure where they should all go. It would seem that the frameworks need to inside the .app bundle, but Wish.app itself is a symlink into Tk.framework.
>>>> 
>>>> Seems there’s a lot of recursion here, and I’m not sure how to unravel this snake. :)
>>> Here's a general tutorial on prepping an app bundle:
>>> 
>>> http://opensource.codebykevin.com/tutorial.html
>>> 
>>> To build a standalone version of Wish with the frameworks embedded, see http://wiki.tcl.tk/12987. You'll need to scroll down the page and look for "embedded."
>>> 
>>> Hope that helps,
>>> Kevin
>>> 
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>>> Kevin Walzer
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