Ok, great to know there are some other mac users... I have reimplemented some blocks using Apples Accelerate framework.. theoretically they should perform better on apple hardware although I havn't done any benchmarks. I will try to release those...
Also knowing there are other mac users will definitely provide some motivation :-) --Albin On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 8:31 PM, Tom Rondeau <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 1:21 PM, Albin Stigö <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi Seth, >> >> I'm fairly new to gnuradio but I've spent the last couple of weeks >> digging through the code of the runtime and grc. GRC doesn't work that >> well on my macbook because of issues with qt and gtk2 (especially >> hidpi "retina" displays)... >> >> I suspect there are very few gnuradio users on mac but I became >> interested in writing a Cocoa port of grc, if only for learning more >> about SDR (this is a hobby for me). Cocoa is very well suited for >> writing these kinds of visual applications (unfortunately they are not >> really portable, or very limited so, using gnustep) > > > > Not true. Quite a few mac users. > > >> >> A QT port sounds really interesting as the model layer could be >> separated and reused in a Cocoa app. >> >> It would also be really neat if it was possible to test the flow graph >> directly/dynamically without using python (dynamically build it in gcc >> using the c++ api, perhaps in a separate process)... Although I >> realize this is a much larger undertaking. >> >> I recently found this and thought it was quite inspiring (web app): >> http://www.pjrc.com/teensy/gui/ >> >> --Albin > > > A principle of the redesign is to separate the GUI elements from the actual > methods, so yes, hopefully this leads into an easier way to redesign to GUI > part for more native support in, say, OS X. > > Tom > > > >> >> On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 6:04 PM, Seth Hitefield <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Albin, >> > >> > What part are you looking to work on? I think there are a few new >> > features being worked on for the current version, and Hopefully we are >> > going >> > to start ramping up on the qt port again soon. >> > >> > -- Seth >> > >> > Sent from my iPhone >> > >> >> On Jul 30, 2015, at 11:11 AM, Albin Stigö <[email protected]> >> >> wrote: >> >> >> >> Hi, >> >> >> >> Is there a separate list for gnuradio-companion development? I'm >> >> interested in taking part... >> >> >> >> --Albin >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> Discuss-gnuradio mailing list >> >> [email protected] >> >> https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Discuss-gnuradio mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio > > _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio
