On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 6:54 AM, Peter Clifton <pc...@cam.ac.uk> wrote: > On Sat, 2010-02-27 at 23:42 -0500, Charles Lepple wrote: >> On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 3:44 PM, Peter Clifton <pc...@cam.ac.uk> wrote: >> > Someone with a Mac might like to try building gEDA and PCB with a native >> > version of GTK? >> >> Is it currently possible to tell a running copy of gschem to open a >> schematic? If not, that is probably something that needs to be fixed >> before worrying about the rest of the Mac look-and-feel. > > Why? Is that parts of the Mac way.. single instance of a running > application?
I should have qualified the "needs to be fixed" part a bit. It is certainly possible to run several copies of gschem on OS X (after all, it is just running an X server at the moment), but if you want it to look and feel like a native application, with a single dock icon, it is probably best to have a single instance. This would go a long way towards having a user double-click on a schematic to open it. > Should be possible (eventually). I think the common method is for there > to be some IPC code in the app (perhaps DBus, perhaps other) - which > looks for other instances. If one exists, it sends the other instance a > command to open the requested file - then itself exits. Yup, that's what I was thinking of. -- - Charles Lepple _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user