[PATCH] Add native OS X support

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Attached are two files:

* Build_MacOS.tar.gz: This contains a directory (MacOS) that should be 
extracted to the Build directory.  It contains all the necessary pieces to 
generate a Pencil.app.
* osx_support_and_desktop_fixes.diff: This contains the necessary changes to 
the build system to enable building for MacOS and a few patches that causes the 
MacOS build to not work[1]

If you extract Build_MacOS.tar.gz so that there is a MacOS directory within the 
Build directory and apply the osx_support_and_desktop_fixes.diff path to the 
root of the working copy, you should be able to run "ant macos" in the Build 
directory and end up with Build/Outputs/MacOs/Pencil.app that will run on any 
OS X system that XULRunner 1.9.2 runs on [2].  Please let me know what you 
think.

[1] I found the following issues with Pencil when running outside of Firefox:
* Saving a document without changing the page title failed due to an extraneous 
Property being saved in the .ep
* Opening a document outside of Pencil, like using the OS to open the file 
while that file is associated with Pencil, would not actually load the document

Both of the bugs above have been fixed and have been tested on OS X.  I think 
these issues might actually solve general bugs in the application reported on 
other operating systems, like Windows, as well.

[2] I had to install XULRunner on OS X to get the xulrunner stub that runs the 
application.  I'm not 100% sure if this is enough to run on other OS X systems 
or not.  I think I might need to put the whole XULRunner.framework into the 
application for it to be runnable without manually installing the XUL.framework.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by jcscoob...@gmail.com on 24 Sep 2010 at 4:32

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For posterity, I'll attach my OS X build.  Like I said before, I'm not sure 
whether this will run standalone as-is or not.  If you try this package on OS X 
and it doesn't run, please let me know and I'll try building a package with a 
complete XUL.framework in the .app.

All you need to do is extract the .tar.gz.  (tar -zxf Pencil.app.tar.gz)

Original comment by jcscoob...@gmail.com on 24 Sep 2010 at 3:39

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So...it seems that you do have to install the XULRunner OS X bundle for this to 
work.  There are two options:

1) Provide an installer that installes XULRunner and Pencil.app
2) Bundle XUL.framework with Pencil.app

I've tested that #2 works but #1 would require more work to actually create the 
OS X PackageMaker project and automate it.

Unfortunately, to test this you either need to install XULRunner, so that you 
have /Library/Frameworks/XUL.framework, or I need to upload a 19MB 
Pencil.app.tar.gz somewhere.

Original comment by jcscoob...@gmail.com on 24 Sep 2010 at 6:40

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Here is the standalone download link:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/479971/Pencil.app.tar.gz

Of course, having to include the XUL.framework changes the build.xml and the 
content of the Build/MacOS contents.  I will hold off attaching a new 
Build_MacOS.tar.gz and osx_support_and_desktop_fixes.diff until we know that we 
have a working package and we can agree on how to package this.

Original comment by jcscoob...@gmail.com on 24 Sep 2010 at 7:26

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I'm not sure if you guys can tell but I've deleted the attachments.  The reason 
for this is I have created a discussion in the Pencil Users group to discuss my 
contributions and the packaging of such.  After finding that XUL.framework 
needed to be packaged into Pencil.app to run, my previous attachments were 
obsolete.  That and the fact that the discussion could seriously change the 
patch and files added, I have decided to just remove them.  The link to the 
standalone/complete Pencil.app is still valid.  Comments welcome.

Original comment by jcscoob...@gmail.com on 24 Sep 2010 at 8:37

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Here is the link to the discussion: 
http://groups.google.com/group/pencil-user/browse_thread/thread/46046f81a5bcefe4

Original comment by jcscoob...@gmail.com on 24 Sep 2010 at 8:37

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i can't get your standalone app to run - it just tells me that there is already 
an instance running (which there isn't)

Original comment by ryanecr...@gmail.com on 25 Sep 2010 at 12:46

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I have a handful of people test the Pencil.app in comment #3 and it worked 
great for them.  Based on the message, I'd assume that you have Firefox running 
and the Pencil extension installed/active when you got this but before I making 
any assumptions, I'll do more digging.  Can you give me anymore information?  
(OS version, CPU type, was Firefox running, etc.)

Original comment by jcscoob...@gmail.com on 25 Sep 2010 at 4:12

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I've found a few instance on Google where people are reporting this with 
XULRunner applications but I can't seem to reproduce it.  Here are the 
scenarios I tried:

1) Launched Firefox (without Pencil opened in Firefox) and opened Pencil.app
2) Launched Firefox, opened Pencil in Firefox and opened Pencil.app
3) Launched Pencil.app and tried to launch another Pencil.app
4) Launched Pencil.app and then tried to open a .ep file from the Terminal

I really will need more information before I can see what the problem is.

Original comment by jcscoob...@gmail.com on 25 Sep 2010 at 4:23

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No issues with your particular build. No Firefox or XULRunner installed here on 
Snow Leopard.

Thanks for making it public :-)

Original comment by jak.spalding on 6 Oct 2010 at 7:18

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That's great news to hear Jak.  Now if we could get some traction to make this 
official...

Original comment by jcscoob...@gmail.com on 8 Oct 2010 at 5:49

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I've tested app in Snow Leopard in French locale and first I had the message :

XML Parsing Error: undefined entity
Location: chrome://pencil/content/UI/Window.xul
Line Number 23, Column 1:<window

I've changed in Pencil.app/Contents/Resources/defaults/preferences/prefs.js the 
line :

pref("intl.locale.matchOS", true);

to

pref("intl.locale.matchOS", false);

and it's works now ! Thank for the OSX build !

Original comment by rafik.bo...@gmail.com on 20 Oct 2010 at 11:05

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Okay...that's two successful reports.  What about taking this effort and 
putting it into the Pencil sources so anyone can build this?  I'd be glad to 
submit a patch.

Original comment by jcscoob...@gmail.com on 20 Oct 2010 at 8:03

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This is fantastic! Thank you for porting this.

Original comment by voice.sh...@gmail.com on 26 Oct 2010 at 11:07

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Glad to hear it's working for you as well.

Original comment by jcscoob...@gmail.com on 26 Oct 2010 at 11:38

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Hi Everybody!
Tried jcsoobyrs package; didn't work the first time. I then followed 
ra...@boiboite's hint and then worked fine. System: Snow Leopard German.
Thanks for relasing this OSX build. Maybe it's time to post it on the official 
site...

Original comment by wa...@gmx.de on 31 Oct 2010 at 5:50

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It worked great! And it's even been a while since last update!

It'd be awesome if this was on the main page of the project. I almost turned 
away from this great tool, used it the other day on a windows station had to 
try it on my pc, which happens to be a mac.

Hope this gets more attention!

All the best, from Brasil!

Original comment by demaral...@gmail.com on 6 Mar 2011 at 4:34

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Just downloaded the .app file in comment 3 and it launched without issue. Will 
play with it.

Original comment by daniel@danielwiseman.com on 4 Aug 2011 at 12:59

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+1 
I have installed it without problems on mac osx 10.7 Lion :)

This should be on the main page, I found this thread by accident while trying 
to find at least Firefox 5 plugin to run on my mac (BTW I didn't find it)

Original comment by slobodan...@gmail.com on 6 Aug 2011 at 11:32

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Just installed it on osx 10.5.8. Same scenario as #18--looking for something 
that ran in firefox 5, but this is even better. Thanks!

Original comment by BrandonR...@gmail.com on 7 Aug 2011 at 12:30

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I have run it without problems on Mac OS X Lion. Does it have a stencil to iOS 
(iPhone or iPad)?

Original comment by astine.d...@gmail.com on 11 Aug 2011 at 3:51

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This is great would you mind sharing the source to make newer builds?

Thanks

Original comment by palma.vi...@gmail.com on 23 Sep 2011 at 3:59

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I gave up on this a long time ago when the owner of the project wouldn't 
address this request.  That being said, the last sources I have for this are 
the ones attached to the issue.  Based on the feedback I see it's been working 
since I created the request so I've not put anymore time into it.  I wish this 
would become part of the project officially but it's never happened.  Sorry.

Original comment by jcscoob...@gmail.com on 23 Sep 2011 at 4:05

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Looks like someone deleted my attachments.  I've undeleted them and they 
include the actual source diff to apply and the binary/new files necessary to 
overlay into the Pencil sources.  Like I mentioned earlier, I've never received 
any feedback from the Pencil developer(s) so I gave up on this a while back.  I 
will be glad to help where I can and I'm happy to hear it's working.

P.S. - You figure this would be good enough feedback to get this officially 
applied to the project...

Original comment by jcscoob...@gmail.com on 29 Sep 2011 at 4:51