Hear, hear!

Art Hunkins

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John D. Ramsdell" 
To: "Csound Developers Discussion List" 
Sent: Sunday, January 02, 2005 7:46 PM
Subject: [CSOUND-DEV:5624] Re: FLTK and OS X


> Anthony Kozar  writes:
> 
> > Here is something that I stumbled upon last month while searching
> > for information on using FLTK with OS X.  I don't know if this is
> > relevant to us or not:
> 
> This message confirms that our current implementation is not thread
> safe.  It also suggests to me that by following the rules in the FLTK
> manual for multithreaded applications, we can be sure our FLTK widgets
> will work on OS X.
> 
> John
> 
> To: pari-dev@list.cr.yp.to
> Subject: Re: Mac OS X + PARI + FLTK
> From: matthiasm 
> Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2004 00:09:55 -0700
> 
> I am not sure if you guys still follow the thread, but I stumbled
> across the mail. I am the developer who ported FLTK to OS X. The
> solution is very simple: OS X requires that your program has a resource
> fork. FLTK provides a default resource fork in FL/mac.r . Simply attach
> the resource via
> 
> /Developer/Tools/Rez -t APPL -o myappname FL/mac.r
> 
> This should make your window responsive and top-level. If threading is
> a problem (FLTK prefers to be the main thread, and only one FLTK thread
> can run per application, unless you dive into the depth of Fl::lock()
> and Fl::unlock()), you can simply use FLTK in the main thread to run
> PARI as the second thread. Some communication to open windows, etc. is
> probably required.
> 
> For more help, feel free to drop by on the FLTK mailing list.
>