PE-bear for macOS

[upiter]

@hasherezade, do you plan to release macOS version of PE-bear?
Currently I succeeded to run 32 bit version of PE-bear v0.3.8 on macOS under Wine (3.0), but it's not native as Win/Linux version, sure.

[hasherezade]

it should be possible to build PE-bear for macOS. unfortunately, currently I don't have the environment to build it. but since you asked, I will try to make it.

[upiter]

Thank you for your willingness.
I see different options:

• I could build it on my system (OS X 10.11.6 El Capitan) using cmake or qmake (via something like your *_autobuild.sh)
• You could use public build services
• You could use VM environment

[hasherezade]

I am planning to build it using Travis CI. I need to check details, but I think it should be possible.

[upiter]

@hasherezade remember that Travis CI is free for open source projects only

[MalwareCantFly]

2019, and the world still needs PE-bear for Mac OS :)
I could try and build it on my machine, if you are willing..

[hasherezade]

thank you for your interest :)
I am refactoring some of the components, and I will opensource it this year.
please, be patient.

[MalwareCantFly]

Amazing news!
Thank you! :)

[analyst321]

Any progress in this? Really would LOVE a Mac build :(

[hasherezade]

@analyst321 - sorry for the delays in this, I have many things that keep me busy (including other free projects). but I will give it a higher priority on my TODO.

[analyst321]

Hey, no of course, you're doing amazing contributions to the community. If you ever get some time for this, that'd be awesome. Otherwise no worries, everyone has VMs up anyway :)

[hasherezade]

slowly but steadily, I keep refactoring the code of PEbear and prepare it for going open source. I don't want to promise any precise date, but this year it will happen. and then you can build PEbear on every platform that is supported by Qt (Windows/Linux/MacOS).

[analyst321]

Any updates on this :( ?

[hasherezade]

@MalwareCantFly @upiter @analyst321 : FYI - in the latest release I included MacOS builds - check it out:
https://github.com/hasherezade/pe-bear-releases/releases/tag/0.5.5.4

[analyst321]

This is amazing! ... thank you for your hard work :)

[hasherezade]

sorry for keeping you waiting for so long 😅
please let me know if everything works fine!

[MalwareCantFly]

Definitely worth the wait :)
The QT bundled version even works on M1 mac! 🥳
Huge thanks @hasherezade for all your amazing work! 🙏

If anyone is interested, it's possible to easily add an icon to the .app using this trick.

[hasherezade]

I am glad that you like it!
I will add the icon to the bundle on the next release, sorry for the inconvenience, I was in a hurry this time!

[upiter]

@hasherezade, you rock! Thank you so much for providing native macOS build!

I've tested 0.5.5.4 and found some issues mostly specific to macOS.
I can mention all issues here or I can create separate issues with screens.

Preliminary issues list (macOS specific)

• Tab names size: tab names are cut; text may be unreadable; tab names have fixed small size. Need an option to keep full size text of tab names so tabs will have uncut names.
• Column sizes in tables: option to automatically resize column width according to its content width. Some columns are narrow and currently one needs to manually resize column width by double-clicking on columns separator in table header.
• Text colours in dark theme: unreadable or hardly readable text (e.g. dark blue on dark grey).
• Icon colours in dark theme: it's hard to distinguish some icons (toolbar, menu, context menu).
• Fonts: need an option to set fixed font via system font dialog. QT warning: qt.qpa.fonts: Populating font family aliases took 792 ms. Replace uses of missing font family "TypeWriter" with one that exists to avoid this cost.

[hasherezade]

@upiter - thank you for your feedback! I will try to fix it for the next release

I can mention all issues here or I can create separate issues with screens.

yes please, create a new issue, this will be very helpful.

[hasherezade]

@upiter - regarding the unreadable text in the dark theme - I can understand that this can occur if the default theme of PE-bear is used with dark System theme. is it the case you are talking about? try to use the dark theme of PE-bear, it should help. (View->Style->Dark)