On Jan 31, 2013, at 16:53, Ian Wadham wrote: > I did "sudo port install -k -s pallet"
Single-letter flags like -k and -s have no effect unless you put them immediately after the word "port". sudo port -k -s install Pallet > I am unfamiliar with both Objective C and the Macports structure … :-( > > However, I am familiar with C++, Qt and Qt Designer (a forms designer > and code generator for Qt-based GUIs). Is there a forms designer for > Mac, BTW? Hand-coding of widgets can be laborious ... Interface Builder. It's part of Xcode. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interface_Builder > I could write something in C++ and Qt, but that might cause a chicken > and egg problem down the line, i.e. to use the GUI you would first have > to install qt4-mac. Also it takes quite a while to install qt4-mac from the > command line, even as a binary package, which might be a turnoff for > beginning users. Installing a binary should be mostly limited by the speed of your network connection, and the speed of your disk to unpack the compressed binary. > Or maybe I could prototype in C++ and Qt while boning up on Xcode > and Cocoa … BTW I have OS X 10.7.5 Lion and Xcode 4.2.1. Would > those be OK as a platform, from Macports' point of view? Yes, but please update to Xcode 4.6. It's a free update for Lion or Mountain Lion users on the Mac App Store or at Apple Developer Connection. My opinion is that cross-platform frameworks like Qt or wxWidgets or Java result in programs that don't look at home on any platform, especially not OS X which has a very specific interface design aesthetic, and which are also far larger and slower than if they had been written to the target OS directly. If cross-platform compatibility is your primary interest and you cannot afford to create separate native interfaces for each of your target platforms then so be it. But for a MacPorts GUI, which need only run on OS X, I strongly suspect that the best user experience will result from writing in Objective-C with Cocoa. _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list macports-users@lists.macosforge.org https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users