Hi Dave,
The reason that your getting that "backgrounded" interface is due to
a missing resource fork; however, you can avoid dealing with that by
creating an appbundle.
The appbundle is just a directory structure that the os sees as an
executable. If you structure it right, you can get the app to fire up
and run like it should:
bundlename.app\
- Pkginfo
- Contents\
- Info.plist: This is the "heart" of the appbundle
- MacOS\
- Your executable(s) here
- Resources\
- your .icns (multi-icons) file
The Info.plist file basically tells the OS what executable to run when
you double click, what icon to use, etc...
The format of info.plist in the binary release of pgadmin is probably
all you'll need to get up and running.
That's it for the appbundle; now if you'd rather create a "double
clickable" executable without all that, you need to add a resource fork
to it. I was using the command below but was running into some issues
with wxWidgets. Also, with a rez fork, you have to be VERY careful
about how you move the file around on your system, i.e. if you move it
via 'cp', 'mv' or tar, you're going to lose that resource fork and get
stuck with a useless rectagle on your screen again. With the
appbundle, you don't have to deal with that kind of thing, AND that's
what Mac Heads are used to ;)
/Developer/Tools/Rez -d __DARWIN__ -t APPL -d __WXMAC__ -i . -i
> include/ -o /usr/local/pgadmin3/bin/pgadmin3 Carbon.r
> /path/to/wx2/lib/libwx_macud-2.5.3.r
-Scott Mead
