another angle on this, if there are problems with mac/gtk is to propose some 
work of benefit to 
ascend but primarily by making gtk more mac-friendly. i.e. advance the 
portability of the ascend gui 
by advancing mainline gtk on mac, using ascend as a test case for the issues in 
gtk. 
don't know if gtk got approved for gsoc in some form. 

ben 

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lucian Branescu" <[email protected]> 
To: "John Pye" <[email protected]>, [email protected] 
Sent: Tuesday, March 24, 2009 9:03:38 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern 
Subject: Re: [Ascend-sim-users] Aspiring GSoC student 

In such a case, I could add some features to the existing GUI. 


I need to check out the situation of GTK on the mac and try to run ASCEND and 
see how it goes. Then I could write a more informed proposal. 


2009/3/25 John Pye < [email protected] > 


Hi Lucian 


Lucian Branescu wrote: 
> I would rather not create a new GUI myself. 

Great, so we're on the same page there. 


> 
> I'll try and build the latest GTK on my mac and see how it works. Same 
> for PyGTK. 
> If the no-x11 branch works well enough, it would be feasible to make 
> the GTK ASCEND GUI work integrate a bit better. 

You could try using the following 'framework': 
http://www.gtk-osx.org/ 


> 
> From what I've read, it should be possible to supplement some non-GUI 
> integration features with PyObjC (only on the non-x11 gtk), but I'm 
> not sure how the two toolkits interact. 

In ASCEND we currently use SWIG for all our C-to-Python bridging. I 
believe that SWIG runs on Mac as well. 

One concern I have with the ASCEND-for-Mac project is that it might turn 
out to be only a couple of weeks of work. We need to know if this is 
likely to occur, and if so, we need to extend to project to ensure that 
we get full value out of the allocated time. 

Cheers 
JP 


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