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qgit on Mac OS X

Subject: qgit on Mac OS X

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4 messages between Feb 5, 2007 and Feb 5, 2007.

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Pazu· Feb 5, 2007, 12:15 UTC · lore

Has anyone tried to compile and use qgit on Mac OS X?

This week I installed qt-mac (3.3.7), and tried to compile qgit. Everything went surprisingly well, and compilation finished without any errors. Now I'm able to launch qgit, but the main window seems unable to receive focus, so I can't interact with the application. Here's an screenshot:

http://pazu.com.br/dav/qgit-osx.jpg

So, I'd love to hear if anyone else tried to use qgit on OS X, and if you had better luck than me.

-- Pazu

Marco Costalba· Feb 5, 2007, 17:39 UTC · re: Pazu · lore

Re: qgit on Mac OS X

On 2/5/07, Pazu <pazu@pazu.com.br> wrote:

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> Has anyone tried to compile and use qgit on Mac OS X?
>
> This week I installed qt-mac (3.3.7), and tried to compile qgit. Everything went
> surprisingly well, and compilation finished without any errors. Now I'm able to
> launch qgit, but the main window seems unable to receive focus, so I can't
> interact with the application. Here's an screenshot:
>
> http://pazu.com.br/dav/qgit-osx.jpg
>
> So, I'd love to hear if anyone else tried to use qgit on OS X, and if you had
> better luck than me.
>

Sorry, I cannot help you because I don't have a MAC.

An idea could be to try to use the Qt4 version of qgit, still some rough edge here and there but it seems to work, both on Linux and on Windows.

Public repo is:  git://repo.or.cz/qgit4.git

Good luck ;-)

Marco

Baz· Feb 5, 2007, 19:20 UTC · re: Pazu · lore

Re: qgit on Mac OS X

On 05/02/07, Pazu <pazu@pazu.com.br> wrote:

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> Has anyone tried to compile and use qgit on Mac OS X?
>
> This week I installed qt-mac (3.3.7), and tried to compile qgit. Everything went
> surprisingly well, and compilation finished without any errors. Now I'm able to
> launch qgit, but the main window seems unable to receive focus, so I can't
> interact with the application. Here's an screenshot:
>
> http://pazu.com.br/dav/qgit-osx.jpg
>
> So, I'd love to hear if anyone else tried to use qgit on OS X, and if you had
> better luck than me.

I havent tried qgit, but I've seen this happen with other apps, and the Qt/Mac docs mention the problem: http://doc.trolltech.com/3.3/mac-differences.html "GUI Applications must be run out of a bundle (something like widgets.app/) or using the open(1) command. Mac OS X needs this to dispatch events correctly, as well as gaining access to the menubar. If using GDB you must run with the full path to the executable."

I'm guessing the command line you used, obscured in the screenshot, was something like

> `pwd`/qgit

Try:

> open ./qgit

instead. BTW, the same advice is in the docs for Qt4.

HTH -Baz

Pazu· Feb 5, 2007, 19:53 UTC · re: Baz · lore

Re: qgit on Mac OS X

2007/2/5, Baz <brian.ewins@gmail.com>:

> Try:
> open ./qgit
> instead. BTW, the same advice is in the docs for Qt4.

Unfortunately, using "open" just opens the executable in TextMate. Fortunately, creating bundles is a breeze, and indeed, if I run the application as a bundle, everything works perfectly!

Cheers,

-- Pazu