[bt-devel] sneak preview on mac

Chris Little bt-devel@crosswire.org
Mon, 09 Feb 2004 14:30:34 -0800


Looks pretty cool Daniel.  Is this all native or does it use X?
--Chris

Daniel Glassey wrote:
> Hi,
> Binary posted now. Get it at:
> http://www.crosswire.org/~dglassey/macosx/bibletime.dmg
> 
> 18MB or so and includes libsword and a version of libcurl that doesn't
> cause BibleTime to crash.
> 
> Regards,
> Daniel
> 
> P.S. You need to do what is on
> http://ranger.befunk.com/phpwiki/index.php/Configure%20KDE to get it to
> work right.
> 
> P.P.S. The libraries are large debug ones so don't be surprised if it
> takes a _long_ time to load (like 60s or so - about double the time of
> it on linux on a similar specced machine).
> 
> P.P.S It is expected that most menu shortcuts don't work yet - that is a
> KDE/Mac bug.
> 
> On Wed, 2004-02-04 at 14:41, Daniel Glassey wrote:
> 
>>Hi,
>>It was easier than expected to get it going (still a few glitches but I 
>>think they are past) so here is the first screenshot of BT on mac.
>>
>>N.B. This is not meant to replace MacSword as a native widgetset 
>>version with a macosx specific gui has an important place. It's just a 
>>bit of competition to spur it on, and to make it easier to copy the 
>>useful features ;)
>>
>>http://www.crosswire.org/~dglassey/macosx/sneakprev3.png
>>
>>Once I've read the docs on how to package stuff and done it I'll upload 
>>a binary somewhere. N.B. To run it you will need the KDE libs from 
>>kde.opendarwin.org which are pretty big (about 160 or 260MB[1] for 
>>everything that is required[2]), so in the meantime if you are 
>>interested you could start downloading it.
>>
>>Regards,
>>Daniel
>>
>>[1] Afaict the packages are of debug builds so they are much bigger 
>>than the eventual release versions will be.
>>[2] kdesupport, kdelibs, arts, Qt. If you install using option 1 on 
>>kde.opendarwin.org you will also get kdebase which is an extra 100MB or 
>>so.
>>
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