Archive for March, 2010

Solution for “My Mac OS X GUI program doesn’t get focus if it’s outside an application bundle”

Posted March 30th @ 9:15 by Werner

This problem regularly comes up at the wxWidgets mailing list: You write an application for Mac OS X which utilizes a GUI and when you start the program, you can see the user interface, but the window doesn’t have the focus and also you can’t click it. So the window is not reactive in any [...]

Install Gnuplot 4.4.0 on Mac OS X

Posted March 25th @ 1:37 by Werner

In a former post I showed how Gnuplot 4.2.6 could be easily installed on Mac OS X. In the meantime Gnuplot 4.4.0 was released and although the wxWidgets terminal still doesn’t work on Mac OS X, there are the new cairo based terminals which provide png and pdf output. These terminals replace the gd terminals [...]

My User options file for SciTE

Posted March 5th @ 10:30 by Werner

SciTE is a great text editor – in fact I tested a lot of text editors on Linux, Windows and Mac OS X, but always come back to SciTE since it is comfortable but still fast and small. Everytime I install SciTE on a machine I change the settings so that they fit my need. [...]

Install Debian Etch as guest in Virtualbox

Posted March 4th @ 8:43 by Werner

In order to prepare Linux executables for distribution, it’s a good idea to compile the executable in an old Linux distribution. Thus it depends only on “old” versions of libraries and the executable should work on most distributions out there (which provide newer but backward compatible libraries). E.g. Dialogblocks, a RAD for wxWidgets, is built [...]

Install Gnuplot 4.4.0 on Ubuntu Linux

Posted March 3rd @ 5:02 by Werner

The most frequented blog entries here are about installing Gnuplot on Ubuntu Linux or Mac OS X. These entries are still valid for the newer Ubuntu versions. But Gnuplot newest version 4.4.0 was already released, and in this release there are cairo based pdf and png terminals provided. So you don’t need the pdflib anymore. [...]

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