Hi all,
Following on from Timothy Coltman's recent work, I have started work
on a GUI for the Mac OS X version of RPCEmu. My aim is to make it
easier to use by providing the same functionality that is available in
the menus of the Windows version. I'm also trying to make it easy to
install by creating a Mac OS X .app bundle that can be installed using
drag and drop.
Here's what I've done so far:
* Created an Xcode project file that builds RPCEmu.app.
* Made some changes to Allegro:
- allow keyboard events to get through to windows other than the
main one
- changes the shutdown code so that the normal Cocoa shutdown
stuff gets run (before I made this change the preferences set with
NSUserDefaults weren't getting saved sometimes)
* Created a preferences window (there's not much there yet)
* Allow the data files (ROMs, HD images, rpc.cfg, hostfs etc. etc.)
to be stored in a user-chosen directory. This was done to avoid
writing to files inside RPCEmu.app which is discouraged on OS X (just
like writing to app dirs is discouraged on RISC OS). The data
directory is ~/Library/Application Support/RPCEmu by default.
* Check for the existence of the data directory on startup, and
create & populate it with default files if it doesn't exist.
* Check for ROM files on startup and allow the user to choose one/
some to copy to <data-dir>/roms if there aren't any there already.
* Added a menubar and menu entries to load floppy discs and CD-ROM
ISO images.
* Added an icon (based on an Artworks Risc PC logo from Arcade).
I still have quite a bit to do, for example I need to allow the
settings in rpc.cfg to be changed in the preferences window, but I
wanted to release my changes now so that Timothy Coltman can merge
some work he's been doing with them (we have exchanged a few emails
off-list).
My changes should not affect the behaviour on Windows or Linux (unless
I've made a mistake ;-)
I have made two patches - one against the Subversion trunk and one
against RPCEmu Spoon 0.8.1. To get it up and running:
* Gunzip http://www.devrx.org/software/rpcemu/rpcemu-svn-fjd.diff.gz
(for SVN trunk) or http://www.devrx.org/software/rpcemu/rpcemu-0.8.1-fjd.diff.gz
(for RPCEmu Spoon) and apply with patch -p1
* If you are using the code from SVN, create directories hostfs and
poduleroms
* Untar http://www.devrx.org/software/rpcemu/rpcemu-fjd-
binfiles.tar.gz
* Follow the instructions in readme-macosx.txt
Comments welcome - if my changes are OK it would be nice to get them
into the Subversion repository.
Cheers,
Francis
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