Re: gEDA-user: Native Mac OS X?

[Peter Clifton <pcjc2@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 2010-02-27 at 23:42 -0500, Charles Lepple wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 3:44 PM, Peter Clifton <pcjc2@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Someone with a Mac might like to try building gEDA and PCB with a native
> > version of GTK?
> 
> Is it currently possible to tell a running copy of gschem to open a
> schematic? If not, that is probably something that needs to be fixed
> before worrying about the rest of the Mac look-and-feel.

Why? Is that parts of the Mac way.. single instance of a running
application?

Should be possible (eventually). I think the common method is for there
to be some IPC code in the app (perhaps DBus, perhaps other) - which
looks for other instances. If one exists, it sends the other instance a
command to open the requested file - then itself exits.

> Gimp for OS X
> has been using the X11 server and some OS X look-alike themes for a
> while, and it integrates pretty well due to the gimp-remote command.

> I think I saw some D-BUS automation interface to PCB - is there
> something similar on gschem?

Not at present.


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Peter Clifton

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