michelkeijzers - time for a Mac version of PCG Tools? :D

ScoobyDoo555 · Post by **ScoobyDoo555** » Sat Apr 07, 2012 7:33 pm

As it would appear that there's not much out there from the official channels, perhaps we can tempt you to port the PCG Tools over to Mac?

You'd probably have a fair few people on the list - myself included.

Dan

ps ever thought of going into plugin design

EJ2 · Post by **EJ2** » Sat Apr 07, 2012 9:27 pm

Flood · Post by **Flood** » Sat Apr 07, 2012 9:35 pm

+1 !!!!

Melodialworks Music · Sat Apr 07, 2012 10:08 pm

+ 1, also!

JuneauUnderground · Post by **JuneauUnderground** » Sat Apr 07, 2012 10:51 pm

Yup 10/4!!

narf · Post by **narf** » Sat Apr 07, 2012 11:43 pm

Yup! I'm on this bandwagon...

jeebustrain · Post by **jeebustrain** » Sun Apr 08, 2012 12:33 am

I'm sure if all you Mac users were kind enough to pool together and buy him a Mac, he'd be happy to do it.

Seriously though, the app is written in .net using a lot of windows specific components. I took a look at the code myself when I was looking into porting it to Linux. The entire presentation layer does not exist in the non-Windows world and there is no Mono/Moonlight equivalent of what he is using.

What's wrong with using the online version that someone put together a bit back?

Lou · Post by **Lou** » Sun Apr 08, 2012 2:16 am

Last time I tried, it only had one function, set lists.

jmchiro1 · Post by **jmchiro1** » Sun Apr 08, 2012 2:59 am

I would be very interested in a Mac version.

X-Trade · Post by **X-Trade** » Sun Apr 08, 2012 8:09 am

Has anyone tried to run it under wine?

What is the code base written in?

markn · Post by **markn** » Sun Apr 08, 2012 6:02 pm

I tried it under wine an it failed, cause MS-DotNet was not willing to work under WINE

michelkeijzers · Post by **michelkeijzers** » Mon Apr 09, 2012 9:53 am

Sorry I react so late, I have been away from internet for a few days.

However, I have good and bad news.

Let's start with the bad news: I myself is not going to port the application to a Mac, mostly because of the following reasons:
- My wish list is already far too big to accomplish in reasonable time
- One of the goals of this project is for me to learn C# icm WPF programming and not Mac programming
- I don't have a Mac myself (and no, buying me one will not pursuade me to do it).

However there is good news too (although not real news):
- The application runs in several windows emulators.
See for more info in the manual post: http://www.korgforums.com/forum/phpBB2/ ... &start=300
- If somebody or a group of persons would like to port it, I will give source code and wherever explain how it works (up to some amount of time).

Kind regards,

Michel

michelkeijzers · Post by **michelkeijzers** » Mon Apr 09, 2012 9:55 am

About emulators:

I don't have reports about working under wine but below are some that have been reported that work:

Window, Mac OS X, Linux, Solaris: Use VirtualBox which is free:
https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads

Mac OS X: VMWare FUsion which is not free:
http://www.vmware.com/products/fusion/features.html

michelkeijzers · Post by **michelkeijzers** » Mon Apr 09, 2012 9:58 am

Mac users

Btw, there are now 440 people having requested the application (and of course receive it), some of them are Mac users (using an emulator). I don't have a list of who is using what exactly but those might react here to write how they get it work.

Environment
I am using Microsoft Visual C#.NET, version 4.0, using LINQ, WPF and possibly some other 4.0 specific features.

Mono (which is a C# port for other platforms) does not support WPF and possibly not LINQ and more (yet).

However, I did some try to split the screens (WPF) and the model but even then you cannot 100% port it immediately so it will probably take some work to port it to a Mac.

markn · Post by **markn** » Mon Apr 09, 2012 2:49 pm

PCG-Tools runs fine under Virtual-Box here. No issues...
I did quite some research on Wine, but found no way to get it running.