[Gnumed-devel] Re: Mac app

[Sebastian Hilbert]

Am Donnerstag, 30. Dezember 2010, 18:57:37 schrieb Jim Busser:
> On 2010-12-30, at 8:53 AM, Sebastian Hilbert wrote:
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> > Please test
> 
> It boots and is an excellent start.
> 
> We may however remain slightly "stuck" with respect to wxMac limitations
> unless wxMac would mature and all by itself fix our problems, or someone
> with more wxMac knowledge could debug some continuing problems:
> 
> 1) there is still a problem with wxMac (as implemented in GNUmed) failing
> to autosize to the Mac monitor resolution or, functionally, the screen
> size. The buttons for confirming the database are positioned below the
> bottom of the window, which the user would have to know to move upward,
> after which the main client window opens "high" with (at top)
> 
>       Contacts        Identity        Social Network
> 
> and this prevents the user to interact with the windows unless they would
> know to go to
> 
>       Window > Zoom
> 
> to bring into view the search box. Fortunately, the resized screen is
> remembered at future sessions.
> 
> 2)  there is still a problem with widget and button auto-sizing and less
> than full visibility. In Demographics (maybe on account of upper and lower
> panes), the user sees only about the top 45% of the buttons
> 
>       Add             Edit            Remove
> 
> unless the user would use the thumb slider along the side of the widget. In
> the Medication plugin, (single pane) it is better, only the bottom border
> of the buttons cannot be seen. Maybe on a bigger monitor than my laptop it
> would be ok. Will advise later.
> 
> 3) hit a bug on trying to activate the Waiting list plugin. Log attached. I
> was not keeping up with any v14 db schema or data patches, if they would
> have been required and if they would have come up since November (assuming
> they would have otherwise been taken care of when I last bootstrapped v15
> in November?)


Puh. I had hoped so. Thanks for the tests. Binary was produced on MacOS 10.4 
and runs on Mac OS 10.6 (?)

Sebastian