I'm posting here to prevent hijacking SneakyMax's Thread. First, here's all that I've posted there so far:







Any more info as it comes in will be posted here. Currently, I'm working on getting it working in Leopard.

1/13/10 1:40:44 PM main[10756] main Error
An unexpected error has occurred during execution of the main script

ImportError: dlopen(/Users/Sam/Desktop/CCMMM.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python2.6/lib-dynload/PyQt4/QtGui.so, 2): no suitable image found. Did find:
/Users/Sam/Desktop/CCMMM.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python2.6/lib-dynload/PyQt4/QtGui.so: unknown required load command 0x80000022



Clarification: Downloaded it, brought it to the desktop, tried to open it...no go. Have Snow Leopard.

Hmm. This means it's a problem with the included Qt rather than it simply being incompatible with Leopard.

That's the same error my friend running Leopard got.

EDIT: Okay, since SneakyMax's mod manager is already nice and does its job in Windows, I'm now completely moving over to Mac and now I'm going to use native Cocoa for the GUI. No more frustrating PyQt limitations and bugs, this will be the real deal when it comes to Mac apps. Also, with PyObjC, I get to use my already-written code. I just need to re-do the GUI.

EDIT2: Aaaaand epic fail. In the process of cleaning up Python on my Mac, I somehow managed to delete the built-in distribution of Python. So it's reinstall time. Development will resume when that's taken care of.

You're awesome!

This makes testing things so much more easy!
Could use a larger icon for the application, but that's probably a low priority.
I will be watching this thread eagerly, and in the mean time ripping this open to have a good look at the innards.

You'll be pretty successful at that, too. Apps built with py2app like that one was don't hide the source code in the .app file. All the Python source is in there for public viewing. However, I wouldn't recommend it as the code is very sloppy at the moment.

As for the development, I managed to fix my Mac/Python problems and now I just have to figure out the Cocoa API. For the record, Objective-C is my least favorite OOPL.

EDIT:

And the development is underway now that I have the art of ObjC programming down.

Have you tried it with older versions of Mac OS X? I have Leopard, but I will probably be switching to Snow Leopard this week, since I can get the installation disk for $30. I am also a Mac developer, but I'm not sure if I can help you, depending on where this project would be going. :\
Also, I'm pretty sure it's not related to the OS, because it's trying to find a file that is differently notated. It's trying to look for "QtGui.so, 2" and the file is "QtGui.so"(exactly the same as freeflow except with Leopard)

This is very useful. Thank you.

I know it's a problem with the included Qt in the app. I'm moving over to regular Cocoa now because this app only needs to run on Mac.

If you want, please PM me with your WLM/Yahoo/MSN and I can send you testing versions to see if they work on other Macs.

EDIT: I'm working on building a new interface to be more intuitive for its purpose and to fit more into the Mac interface. Please bear with me as I'm doing things I've never done before.

Here's what it looks like so far:

What do you think? The "Run Cortex Command" button will change according to which app you selected. It should be the default CC Mac icon.

EDIT2: New Icon!


Feedback is appreciated. I may ask a professional to design one for me later.

I have a request.
Could you make it possible to adjust some basic settings (glows on/off) from inside the mod manager?
It's just a matter of editing the settings.ini file.
I'm mostly just sick of opening the base.rte up every time I need to do that.

Also: Can the next version have a apple-q shortcut?

This is getting better and better!
I like the UI, but I don't think the gear logo works as well as the CC logo (or related) would for the "launch CC" button.
That's just me nitpicking a pre-release version though.

If you want to continue developing once you've fleshed it out to a release, I think that a favorites system would be awesome.

Bad news, my MacBook is in the repair shop for a hinge problem so development is halted yet again until it's fixed (around Friday.)



Alright, but I probably won't work on that until the actual mod manager part is finished.



Now that it's Cocoa-based, it will have that shortcut automatically programmed in.



See above:




Favorites?

Wow, I failed to read that.

I was thinking a favorites system would allow you to assign mods to groups, then enable or disable by group.
For example, a bunch of one-off mods that each give a gun or a tool would make up one group, so rather than combine them at the ini level, you can treat them as one mod. Or you group all the missions played by ronin or <insert faction>.

I already do this with the built-in labels on MacOS, but that method and the mod manager do not go hand in hand.

Good idea, I think I'll put that in there.

EDIT: I'm typing this on my recently-repaired MacBook. Time to get to work on the backend of the MCCMM.

And if you need to know (nosy), the hinge was defective and they just replaced the display assembly.

EDIT2: After much work, I've finished all the mod-detection and display code, and the app selection and icon-getting code. Here, have a teaser:


No enable/disable code has been ported to Cocoa yet, but I will work on that tomorrow. I have some great plans for this app and I think you Mac users will like it.

Also, if you see this, watch out for a test release of the Cocoa version. I'll get that out as soon as I polish this up a bit.

Apologies for the double post, mods, but I really need this bumped for testers. Otherwise, nobody would see this and test it for me.

Attached is the testing version I was talking about. It doesn't enable, disable, install, or uninstall mods yet, but it displays a list of them (excluding the built-in mods) and lets you select the CC app you want to modify. If you run the binary inside the app from Terminal.app, it will give you some basic output on what it's doing. You may decompile the .pyc files in the Resources directory and see the source code if you really want to. I really only remove the source files so some retard doesn't screw up the app by modifying them with a text editor and reporting it as a bug.

Helpful things to do would be to try clicking all the toolbar buttons and seeing if they cause errors, and manually removing and adding mods, then rescanning to see if it detects the changes.

This should work on Snow Leopard (10.6), Leopard (10.5), and Tiger (10.4). (Intel processors only. Sorry, no PPC support.)
However, Tiger users must download and install this: Python 2.5.4

Fun Fact: The uncompressed app is only 1.5MB and the .zip is only 471KB (less than half a MB).

Works fine for me, on 10.6.2.
I like the changes, and using the built in window components is great.

If you do not have access to a PPC machine, and that is why you cannot build for them, I would like to offer my service as a button pressing monkey with a PPC machine. It's an old g4, running 10.5.8 headlessly. It's set up to be a simple media server, and therefore does not have a lot of dev-related things installed, but I can change that.


Feature Idea:
Level detection. Read through the index, and a mention of a "scenes.ini" adds a tag to the mod when displayed.
Most mods seem to keep to a standard method of defining things, and this would add a lot of appeal.
I suppose that you could also read through for "crafts.ini," but it's more common and therefore less important, and could clutter the display.