Re: gEDA-user: Native Mac OS X?

[Charles Lepple <clepple@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 6:54 AM, Peter Clifton <pcjc2@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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?

I should have qualified the "needs to be fixed" part a bit. It is
certainly possible to run several copies of gschem on OS X (after all,
it is just running an X server at the moment), but if you want it to
look and feel like a native application, with a single dock icon, it
is probably best to have a single instance.

This would go a long way towards having a user double-click on a
schematic to open it.

> 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.

Yup, that's what I was thinking of.

-- 
- Charles Lepple


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