[Scribus] [Patch] MacOSX native

[Craig Bradney]

On Sunday 13 March 2005 20:51, Andreas Vox wrote:
> Hi Martin!
>
> > What took me the longest was to beat Qt/Mac into submission. In
> > particular it was not quite obvious how to find a suitable set of
> > configure options and how to convince it to install things the Fink
> > way.
> > For a definite Fink package, this will probably have to change again
> > considerably. But as a tool for building Scribus, it seems to be OK.
>
> Ah, good, I couldn't have done this.
>
> > Concerning the Scribus application, here is first the good news: It
> > seems that with this version of 1.3cvs, the colors are displayed
> > correctly!
>
> My assumption is that you still had the old "color-correct" patch
> applied.
>
> > There is also no problem with finding fonts. If one lists the
> > fonts directories in ~/.scribus/scribusfont13.rc, at least the
> > postscript fonts that can be used in X11 are seen also.
>
> I'll try that. Do you have experience with MacOSX datafork fonts?
>
> > The bad news is that there are bugs with the window management. For
> > example, the Properties tool window ends up glued into the right upper
> > corner of the screen, its title bar hidden behind the screen menu bar,
> > so that it is practically unusable.
>
> Can't confirm that. Maybe a stale prefs file like Craig suggested.
>
> > There are problems with scrolling,
> > where the screen is sometimes not redrawn correctly.
>
> I noticed that also: using the scrollbar to scroll down line by line
> messes
> up completely, scrolling up is ok. I'll look into that.
>
> I also fond out that you have to change
>
> -        bitBlt(m_target, 0, 0, &qimg);
> +        bitBlt(m_target, m_x, m_y, &qimg);
>
> in ScPainter::end(), otherwise you will get garbage in the top left
> corner
> when you select some object and change its properties.
>
> > Tackling these
> > problems is far outside of my domain of knowledge. Someone with insight
> > in Mac programming, in particular also with Qt/Mac, is probably needed
> > here.
>
> I'll try. Right now I'm trying to get the Navigation bar in scribusview
> to
> look good, Aqua buttons just will not do there :-)
>
> > So whereas many things are working, this is not yet ready to be
> > unleashed onto the Mac user community.
>
> Definitely not! Only for persons who beg ;-)
>
> > But I hope that the situation is
> > now such that the real problems can be attacked.
>
> Yes.
> Should we try to get all these changes into CVS head? Right now
> it's all quite localized with #ifdef QT_MAC, so it shouldn't be a
> problem.
>
> > A final remark: The Scribus.app produced by the scribus-aqua package
> > is,
> > of course, not a standalone application that can be distributed
> > independently. For running, it needs a lot of libraries from Fink. But
> > repackaging this differently, once it is working correctly, is a minor
> > difficulty, IMHO.
>
> I'll look into what has to be done in order to make Scribus find the
> packaged
> libraries / plugins.

Theres been work there today re the scribus required libs. I'm syncing CVS 
now, so please update.

Craig
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