[Visualpython-users] VPython on Mac 2

[Bruce S. <Bru...@nc...>]

I now realize I've overstated the case, as what seems to semi-exist is 
only gtk+ (gtk2) for native Mac windowing. I don't find gtkmm to wrap 
this gtk2, alas, which matters, because since Visual is written in C++, 
Visual is based on gtkmm, not directly on gtk2.

Here are links and discussions about gtk+ on the Mac:

http://developer.imendio.com/projects/gtk-macosx/

http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2007/06/22/graphical-tool-kits-for-apples-os-x-gtk2.html?page=1

http://developer.imendio.com/files/developer/Porting-Gtk-MacOSX.pdf

Would it be all right and make sense to move this conversation to the 
VPython mailing list? For all I know we're missing some other interested 
parties by having this private conversation. If I hear no objection, 
I'll copy or summarize the notes so far in that mailing list.

Bruce

Steve Spicklemire wrote:
 > Hi Bruce,
 >
 > On Oct 31, 2007, at 9:16 PM, Bruce Sherwood wrote:
 >
 >> There are now new gtk2/gtkmm packages for the Mac, which talk to 
Aqua instead of to X11. Unfortunately, they are currently labeled 
BEWARE! HERE BE DRAGONS! But one could try. It would be excellent if 
most of Visual were platform-dependent, with only a few odd-ball files 
specific to Windows and Mac. (For example, even in Brandmeyer's original 
beta version, there were a few Windows-specific files for getting the 
time, etc.)
 >
 > Can you point me to these? I snooped around a bit a few weeks ago and 
didn't find anything. I do a lot of Cocoa/Aqua development with the 
PyObjc bridge (http://pyobjc.sourceforge.net/) which makes it trivial to 
open windows and talk to OpenGL. If we can get the gtk2 stuff working 
with Aqua.. I think the rest would be (fairly) easy! It's pretty easy to 
build native installer packages using Iceberg 
(http://s.sudre.free.fr/Software/Iceberg.html).
 >
 > thanks,
 > -steve