I've now published a third go at this, in http://sourceforge.net/projects/gretl/files/osx-testing/ On OS X 10.6.8, at least, it fixes some (not all) of the issues mentioned by Henrique and Berend. Among other things, there's support for the R shared library and there's a window listing under the top-level Mac Window menu. Some of the keyboard accelerators are better than before.

> - Pressing Command+Q to quit Gretl brings up the "save > commands" dialog with the Yes button highlighted. Navigating > to the No button doesn't highlight the No button but only > show a highlighted border. Navigating to the other buttons > in that dialog does highlight the complete button. Hmm, I can arrow-key to "No" successfully here.

It's a significant achievement to have come so far. It would be really nice if the mac integration could be pushed further. With the keyboard control that I have mentioned in previous posts. It looks like you have done all that is possible so maybe some advice from gtk-osx people can shed some light on how to proceed.

On Fri, 29 Mar 2013, Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti wrote: > On Fri, 29 Mar 2013, Berend Hasselman wrote: > >> It's a significant achievement to have come so far. >> >> It would be really nice if the mac integration could be pushed further. >> With the keyboard control that I have mentioned in previous posts. It looks >> like you have done all that is possible so maybe some advice from gtk-osx >> people can shed some light on how to proceed. > > IMHO setting the look and feel of the Mac version "right" would warrant by > itself a new release, considering the growing popularity of the platform (OSX > accounts for about 1/6 of downloads currently, with much higher peaks in some > countries like the US or France). I agree, but there's still some way to go; and getting the remaining stuff right will probably have to involve fixes in the gtk-mac-integration library, which we're relying upon for the top-of-screen menu functionality.

On Wed, 3 Apr 2013, Berend Hasselman wrote: > On 30-03-2013, at 17:44, Allin Cottrell <cottrell(a)wfu.edu&gt; wrote: > >> On Fri, 29 Mar 2013, Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti wrote: >> >>> On Fri, 29 Mar 2013, Berend Hasselman wrote: >>> >>>> It's a significant achievement to have come so far. >>>> >>>> It would be really nice if the mac integration could be pushed further. >>>> With the keyboard control that I have mentioned in previous posts. It looks >>>> like you have done all that is possible so maybe some advice from gtk-osx >>>> people can shed some light on how to proceed. >>> >>> IMHO setting the look and feel of the Mac version "right" would warrant by >>> itself a new release, considering the growing popularity of the platform (OSX >>> accounts for about 1/6 of downloads currently, with much higher peaks in some >>> countries like the US or France). >> >> I agree, but there's still some way to go; and getting the >> remaining stuff right will probably have to involve fixes in >> the gtk-mac-integration library, which we're relying upon for >> the top-of-screen menu functionality. > > > Recently a completely native Quartz build of Gimp 2.8.4 was released (http://gimp.lisanet.de/Website/News/Eintrage/2013/3/21_GIMP_2.8.4_release...). It uses a Mac version of GTK. > > It has the menu at the top of the screen and lots of Mac keyboard shortcuts. > > I tested if Control+F2 would activate the application's menu. > No. > > I have reported this to the developer and received the reply > > "Hhmm, you're right. The keyboard shortcut does not work, so sadly, that's one more drawback of a native build. Sorry. I'll try to find a solution for this issue…" > > First letter navigation in the menu works. > > It would seem a good idea to keep in touch with the developer of the Mac native Gimp to see if she is able to find a solution. The email address is on the support page of the site (http://gimp.lisanet.de/Website/Support.html) in obfuscated form. Yes, that's a good suggestion. I did send a message to gtk-osx-users; the reply I got seemed to indicate that it wasn't surprising that the things I mentioned (in relation to gtk-mac-integration) were not working right. Maybe the gimp people are a step ahead. In the meantime I'm also working on a new 64-bit gretl-X11 package for OS X 10.6 and higher. This uses up-to-date GTK, has themeing, and has GTK built-in (like the quartz package). It might be advantageous to have a 2-step install (Xquartz + gretl) rather than 3-step as at present -- at least as an interim stage.