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OSXSupportForAlphaTwoStory

Story summary	We still need to bring support for OS X on par with the other platforms we support.
Iteration	VrjTwoZeroAlphaTwo
Development order	1
Customer
Story Lead	GalenFaidley
FEA
Acceptance Criteria
Passed acceptance test	Yes

Full story

The efforts to get OS X support completed by the Alpha 1 release missed the deadline, so we should try to get the last little bits finished for Alpha 2.

Implementation notes

Tasks in this story

Tasks	Est	Spent	Risk	Developer	Task Name
Task	2	4	Medium	GalenFaidley	Get Build to work
Task	2	2	High	GalenFaidley	Deal with the X11 issues
Task	5	5	High	GalenFaidley	Create Project files
Task	5	5	High	GalenFaidley	Investigate the use of frameworks
Task	8	8	Medium	GalenFaidley	Improve GL window
Task	2	2	Medium	GalenFaidley	Improve Keyboard input
Task	8	8	Low	GalenFaidley	Clean up code
Task	4	4	High	GalenFaidley	Get to work with new sim code

Task details:

Get Build to work:

The linking line for the vrjuggler component is missing two '-framework' this causes the build to fail. The problem was that all but the last '-framework' was being stripped by the code to remove multiply defined libraries. Patrick made a change to the way that works and the problem no longer occurs.
'/gadget/Devices/Keyboard/KeyboardOSX.cpp' failed to built because of a conflict between boost and carbon. Including the carbon header last resolved this.
Need to figuer out how not to build dynamic libraries since there is a bug with statics.

Deal with the X11 issues:
We assume that any Unix system will use X11. This is not the case on OS X. This causes the linking of the samples to fail. We should also include a way to use X11 on OS X now that apple provides an OpenGL accelerated version.

Create Project files:
Mac users will probably prefer to use project files than make files. This will also automatically make the application bundles.

Investigate the use of frameworks:
Using frameworks should make using project builder easier. The headers and libraries are in one bundle. I have to investigate how to create these from command line.

Improve GL window:
Add full-screen support so we can eliminate the menu bar. Also add the support for custom GL options form config files

Improve Keyboard input:
Commit the change so keys no longer act as if they were stuck. This will cause a performance hit that will need to be worked on. When you click to bring a window to the front no mouse up event is received. Windows in the background get mouse move events when they should not.

Clean up code:
Remove a bunch of comments and make sure everything adheres to the coding standard.

Get to work with new sim code
The new sim code is causing an assert at run time

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