[JW Lua] JW Lua cross-platform compatibility issues (minor addition and screenshot)

Jan Angermüller jan at angermueller.com
Sun Nov 6 15:23:19 CET 2016


Sorry, I mixed up x and y, it's the x factor 1.46 and the y factor 1.25.
Here is also a screenshot that shows the behaviour.



Best,
Jan

Am 05.11.2016 um 22:25 schrieb Jan Angermüller:
> Hi Jari,
>
> currently I am testing my plugins on cross-platform compatibility and 
> I noticed two problems on MacOS (the plugin development was done on 
> Windows):
>
> 1.) io.popen seems to be not supported by JW Lua on MacOS.
> From what I have read in some forums this might be an issue of an 
> older 5.2 Lua release for MacOS.
> It was recommended to compile with the latest 5.2 Lua release where 
> the issue should have been fixed.
> See for example:
> http://forum.cockos.com/archive/index.php/t-166043.html
>
> 2.) The dialogs on Windows and MacOS need different scaling factors to 
> have the same look.
> To make my Windows 10 dialog look the same on MacOS (El Capitan) I 
> needed to scale the x values (Width and X-Offset) by ca. 1.25 and the 
> y values (Height and Y-Offset) by ca. 1.46.
> I don't know if these values are correct for every Windows and MacOS 
> version, but they seem to work much better than using the default 
> (identical) scaling on Windows and MacOS.
>
> Best,
> Jan
>
>
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