Re: OK, everyone...

On 16/02/2004, at 10:05 PM, Alex Martelli wrote:

> On Monday 16 February 2004 12:22 pm, Matthew Schinckel wrote:
>> Hi Magnus/All,
>>
>> I might be keen to get involved again - I'm currently set up with a PC
>> (running XP, and a Mac (OSX.3).  I don't have a lot of experience with
>> programming any toolkits here, but am prepared to learn!
>>
>> Beosgui is not something I can develop any longer - my Mac with BeOS 
>> is
>> waiting to be sold for scrap (!), and I'm not sure I'll be able to
>> install it on either of my new computers - maybe when a workable
>> version of open-beos comes out.
>>
>> So, the short of this is, I am prepared to do testing for toolkits on
>> OSX/XP (prefer OSX!), and build up to developing as I get confidence.
>
> We might have some sinergy here... I now also own a Mac (the first in 
> my life,
> a 12" iBook G4 w/Panther) and am itching to try my hand at some MacOS X
> development.  I have no dev't experience there, yet, though PyObjC 
> looks
> yummy.  I have also installed the GPL version of the latest Mac Qt (a 
> toolkit
> with which I do have experience, but not in the latest version and 
> only on
> Linux and Windows) -- PyQt still had some teething trouble on the Mac 
> last
> time I tried it (about 3 weeks ago), but it might be OK now, so that 
> could be
> an alternative, too.  "Pair programming" (albeit not side by side, but 
> at a
> distance:-) might provide me with just the right amount of incentive to
> squeeze this project into my overflowing schedule...

Heh! I've obviously been emailing only to relative newbies, I've even 
started adding my replies to the top of messages!

Seriously, that sounds great.  I suspect we should make sure we are 
using the same versions of everything.  At the moment I have a largely 
vanilla OSX setup, and haven't really done much, other than install the 
development tools.

< Kinda OT>
Something I have done is play around a bit with the GUI creation tool - 
if you Ctrl-click on an app, and choose Show Package contents (or go 
into a Terminal and cd to the <AppName>.app/Contents/Resources 
directory) you may find a <name>.nib file, that, if Development tools 
has been installed, allows you to tweak the user interface.

I really like the way packages/apps/bundles are handled on OSX - I 
think it's a neat way to do stuff.

The other options are to look at some of the programs that are designed 
for creating interfaces for bash scripts and the like - I started to 
look at this a couple of weeks ago, before I agreed to turn a video a 
guy had created into a DVD...Platypus and iHook seemed like the best 
candidates.
</OT>

Matt.
>
> Alex
>
>
-- 
Matt Schinckel <[email protected]>



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