Gideros Update 2015.04.26

MobAmuse · May 2015

Other than that... I noticed the Mac export option creates an .app

I updated the .plist in the app by right clicking the package contents of the exported .app and then compressed it to a .zip ready for Application loader. It then goes to load it up to Apple but then complains it needs to be a .pkg. I then downloaded the app 'Packages.app' which creates OSX packages (really good actually) and tried to upload the Mac app .pkg I made with that but no go either - meh?

I even made a new icon (.icns) for the exported .app and updated the app with it.

Question: How then do we get from the point of exporting a Mac .app with Gideros to uploading it to the Mac app store? ...Yes I have a separate Mac dev account ($99/year).

I thought in reality that the Mac export option was going to give us the Xcode source to rebuild in Xcode rather than build the end app for us, which I can't seem to do anything with for trying :P

It does work on Mac tho - I just want to upload it to Apple!

I have never uploaded a Mac app before to iTunes and assumed it was a lot like iOS submission you see.

ar2rsawseen · May 2015

@MobAmuse I don't know if all prerequisites are met in this export release but here are additional steps to submit QT .app to appstore:

https://blog.qt.io/blog/2012/04/03/how-to-publish-qt-applications-in-the-mac-app-store-2/

@marcelojunior probably you need to see this too

MobAmuse · May 2015

@ar2rsawseen I will check that out thanks. There was also the issue of signing the app for the record.

MobAmuse · May 2015

WOW I just read that - very painful indeed... think I might give Gideros to actual Mac submission a miss for now then :O

ar2rsawseen · May 2015

imho most of the stuff already should be in the exporting package, only codesigning and package should be done by end user

ianchia · May 2015

@ar2rsawseen @marcelojunior - Thank you for your work on the Mac desktop export. However, like others - I was expecting an Xcode project to be exported like the iOS export. I'm actually building enterprise apps for hospitals using Gideros and using some custom plugins, and need to be able to compile my own Xcode project with custom OSX OBJC++ plugins that parallel the functionality I've built for the iOS apps. What are the possibilities for doing this?

I've read through https://blog.qt.io/blog/2012/04/03/how-to-publish-qt-applications-in-the-mac-app-store-2/ and this is not a problem for me.

Thank you for your consideration.

Best,

- Ian

john26 · May 2015

Dear All,

Many thanks for your feedback. I can see it would be very useful to have an Xcode export for Mac OS X. @marcelojunior is in charge of this and will be here to discuss this matter with you shortly.

Regarding Windows, the Windows desktop produces a stand alone EXE but the Windows Store export (Metro style) produces a Visual Studio project so I think we've got all bases covered there...!

john26 · May 2015

@SinisterSoft: "Bytecode should also come back on the next release for everything except iOS as I spotted the problem line and John said he would sort it."

Yes this is now sorted. Bytecode is emitted for all targets except iOS.

marcelojunior · May 2015

Hello Folks, how are you?

I'm reading about the possibility of export an XCode project, not an .app, for the desktop version. Well, the .app (Mac, .exe Windows) is based on Qt, but I think that is possible to "convert" this to an XCode proj.

Soon I'll be back with an answer about it!

MobAmuse · May 2015

iOS encryption: I tried again with export to a new empty dir as suggested and it worked! - hooorah

ar2rsawseen · May 2015

@marcelojunior it might not be easy to get xcode project from QT (might even be impossible), so try to check the link I posted and comply with those steps in template, so it would be possible to submit .app directly.

Unfortunately my guess would be that for xcode template, one would have to rewrite whole thing (like another platform, unless there are too many similarities with ios one)

anneMurielle · May 2015

Hi,

I've tried to install this version (the exe.) on my windows 7 but the Gideros doesn't work anymore. A process (or several if I tried to open it several times) exist in the Task Manager but the application itself is not displayed. Moreover I can not kill the process(es), I need to logoff or restart the computer to "kill" them.

I re-installed the previous version and if works fine. Could you tell me what I could do to install the last version ?

Thanks for you help.

talis · May 2015

hi @anneMurielle just came to my mind. Did you make a fresh install, or just installed over the old version?

anneMurielle · May 2015

Oh, I just installed over the old version. It's perhaps that the problem ? I will try to uninstall all and install it again.

anneMurielle · May 2015

I just uninstalled all and reinstalled the new one but unfortunately it's the same

. Anyways thanks for the help.

ar2rsawseen · May 2015

@anneMurielle do you know since which version does it happen, or what was the last version that worked?

anneMurielle · May 2015

It's just for this version, I re-install the version v2015.04.18 that works fine.

AniketK · May 2015

I can't load projects in the studio or use gdrexport on any of my projects. I crashes on my system. Running the windows exe under wine on kubuntu 15.04.

Here are the detailed crash logs from wine, any idea what's wrong?
I upgraded from some version but I don't know which. The installer however said that the old version was being completely removed.

hgy29 · May 2015

@Aniketk, stack traceback is:

   DependencyGraph::dependencies()
   LibraryTreeWidget::toXml() const
   LibraryTreeWidget::loadXml(QString const&, QDomDocument const&)
   MainWindow::openProject(QString const&)
   MainWindow::openProject()

Looks like there is something wrong with the projects files (.gproj) themselves, most probably dealing with 'dependency' tags

hgy29 · May 2015

@anneMurielle, could you trace to capture gideros debug output with DebugView (https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb896647.aspx) and tell us what comes out (if any) ?

Et puisque sur ta page facebook tu cite la Bretagne, je te souhaite le bonjour de Porspoder

AniketK · May 2015

@hgy29 thanks! It was indeed caused by a file that depended on a non existant file!

I'm curious why the GUI Gideros Studio access to adjusting and creating dependencies was removed? Is there a better way to set this?

hgy29 · May 2015

@AniketK, I didn't even know the existence of this (very useful) feature before digging into the code for you... It can be accessed by right-clicking on a lua file in gideros studio.
BTW removing files shouldn't make the project unopenable, this is a bug that will need to be fixed.

AniketK · May 2015

@hgy29 whoa, previously it used be that you'd click on the top level project box and that would let you edit dependencies and the call order.
Now it's right clicking on the files themselves that gives you the option to enter that menu so I didn't see it and I'm amazed I never tried that! Thanks again.

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