Re: [Wxruby-dev] Mac OS X menubar!

[John Platte]

So to get wxRuby scripts running on Mac OS X, I just have to wrap them  
in a properly constructed .app bundle directory and make the script  
self-executable (chmod a+x & appropriate shell line).

Now I suppose the wxRuby-on-OS X story turns to: how do we make these  
bundles automatically? It's all well and good for a compiled language  
where a Makefile can do work like this behind the scenes...

...maybe I just write a Ruby script that creates a bundle around a  
given Ruby script? The screwy part is that Apple wants you to use their  
API and not hard-coded paths for accessing files within a bundle, as  
noted in their documentation on the structure of bundles:

http://developer.apple.com/documentation/MacOSX/Conceptual/ 
SystemOverview/Bundles/chapter_5_section_3.html

This would mean that any additional scripts outside the single Ruby  
file have to be in Ruby's $: to be available, wouldn't it? Putting some  
debug spew into the bundled minimal.app script, I see that the bundled  
script's environment's pwd is "/". Maybe when wxRuby is require'd, it  
can chdir to the pwd for OS X and ensure that "." is in $:? I think  
that could let (some?) scripts run unmodified from other platforms with  
only a simple wrapping process.

OS X's Ruby is @ /usr/bin/ruby.

On Wednesday, Jul 23, 2003, at 12:01 America/Chicago, John Platte wrote:

> Whoa!
>
> On a whim I copied some of the stuff from the wxWindows .app bundles
> into a minimal.app directory I created, and, and, this! (Screenshot
> attached.)
>
> The menu bar works, events get trapped, the script I used was the one
> with the icon-handler problem and I could CLICK AND DISMISS the error
> dialog, the About menu command works...!!!!

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John Platte
Principal Consultant, NIKA Consulting
http://nikaconsulting.com/