Re: [TiLP-devel] TiEmu on Mac OS X & call for volunteers {Scanned}

[Romain <ro...@li...>]

Hi,

> Roms: the LDFLAGS part should go into the configure script.

I should change the LDFLAGS according to the platform type ?

> Glade to see that my OS X code still builds.

Me too ;-)

>> The result is that I have a TiEmu that runs a TI92+ ROM dump, the
>> keyboard works (apart from the fact that I can't type "b" because that
>> key triggers screenshotting because of a hardcoded PC keycode in

well, keyboard is somewhat broken; This is the reason why I haven't
released any version.

>> on_calc_wnd_key_press_event), but there's no reaction to any mouse
>> clicks in the window. The function on_calc_wnd_button_press_event
>> never gets called, I haven't yet figured out why. Therefore, I can't
>> bring up the popup menu and can't try out any other functions (I'll
>> probably try modifying on_calc_wnd_key_press_event to bring up the
>> menu on a key press, in the meantime).
>
> I'll leave that one to Roms :)

It seems that GDK does not capture mouse events. Maybe due to Mac OS-X ?

>> Thanks for your work, I'm quite excited about it! I'm looking forward

Thanks for your test.

>> to the day we finally have a complete, up-to-date TI emulator on Mac
>> OS X. I wonder whether a Cocoa GUI would be difficult to
>> do... unfortunately I won't have much time to try in the next few
>> months.
>
> It shouldn't be that hard, now that Roms dropped the SDL. The main
> problem when I first attempted to port TiEmu was to get the SDL to
> cooperate with Cocoa, which was quite a challenge (the same problem

Same pb with Win32/SDL :-((

BTW, a native GUI is great but requires more work. I done that for the
Win32 port of TiLP but I stopped it. This needed too many work to synch
features and code. A unified GUI is easier to maintain and fix.

> existed with SDL and GTK+, but there were a few hackish workaround to
> make it work. It broke with GTK+ 2.0, though)
>
> Be warned, porting TiEmu will require updating the libs first. All the
> code is still there, including the ProjectBuilder files (although
> you'll want to switch to XCode :) In the process, you'll probably have
> to update the TiLP port too, to test the libs (shouldn't be much of a
> problem, might take a few days & crashes though).

Yeah, if you want to work on the Mac OS-X port, you're welcome and I will
be very happy. I'm missing developers/helpers.
If you want to rise the challenge, JB can provide you a CVS access.

> Some parts needed for TiEmu already exist in TiLP : skin loading,
> keyboard handling, and can be reused as is. The skin editor is also
> ported.

The skin editor does not use SDL any longer. Thus, it should be quite eas=
y
to port, too. BTW, are you familiar with GTK ?

> If someone wants to revive the OS X ports, I'll assist as much as I
> can (I no longer have OS X installed on my laptop, so there's nothing
> I can test but I have a pretty good memory :)
>
> The hardest part of the port is to get familiar with the libs and
> TiEmu. Once this is done, you're halfway there.
>
> JB.
>

Thanks, JB.
--=20
Romain Li=E9vin :		<ro...@li...>
Web site :		http://www.lievin.net
"Linux, y'a moins bien mais c'est plus cher !"