Re: [XaraXtreme-dev] MacOS X build instructions / runtime error

[Phil Martin <phil@xxxxxxxx>]

Phil Martin wrote:
> Hi Falko,
>
> Your message did get through, to me at least, via Charles and Neil.
>
> I added the libtiff argument to the build instructions, thanks.
>
> The crash you describe is seen by other people too. It's caused by 
> wxView::GetFrame() returning a NULL pointer. XaraLX assumes that 
> wxView::GetFrame will return a good pointer to a frame window, because 
> it told wxWidgets to create an MFC-style window framework. It looks to 
> me like wxWidgets is behaving differently on the Mac than it does when 
> configured for GTK so I suspect a wxWidgets problem but I haven't 
> looked into it properly yet.
>
> Phil

Did I say "MFC-style"? I meant "MDI-style"
.
In the long run we probably don't really want XaraLX to have MDI-style 
windows on the Mac because that's not the Mac way of doing things. So 
the question is, should we persist with trying to get the MDI-style 
working for now, so that we can make other parts of the program more 
stable or should we change to a different window layout now, which will 
undoubtedly introduce a new layer of Mac-only bugs.

Phil