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 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20050313/493a44ec/attachment.pgp
