One again, Taktik is proud to give to the OpenERP community a new version of the GTK Mac OS X Client 5.0.11.
With this version, we go a step further into the mac integration : the system menu bar is now used and we included the Clearlooks theme for a nicer GUI.

See the following screenshots.




We hope you will be happy with this new release.

The Taktik OpenERP Team.

N.B. : to enjoy the new theme, please delete the file .openerprc in your home directory : open a terminal window and type "rm ~/.openerprc" then ENTER.

N.B. 2 : we forgot to patch the new GTK to get the CMD+c, CMD+v working instead of CTRL+c, CTRL+v. Please re-download the app if you got it before 6th of July 2010, 18:30 GMT+1.

We are proud to annonce that we successfully packaged OpenERP GTK Client for Leopard (Mac OS X 10.5) and Snow Leopard (Mac OS X 10.6).
The app will only work on intel macs.
The app will not run from the dmg, so please copy the app into your /Applications folder.

Here are the download links:
- OpenERP Client 5.0.7 (10.5 and 10.6 - intel mac)
- OpenERP Client 5.0.8 (10.5 and 10.6 - intel mac)
- OpenERP Client 5.0.9 (10.5 and 10.6 - intel mac)

Please come back to us for any problems you may encounter.
openerp-dev@taktik.be

With our experience in OpenERP implementations and deployments for different clients, we have decided to have an ambitious OpenERP development strategy aimed at:
- consolidation,
- reliability,
- and test.

Starting now, Taktik will work in it's own OpenERP branches:
- lp:~openerp-community/openobject-server/taktik
- lp:~openerp-community/openobject-addons/taktik
- lp:~openerp-community/openobject-addons/taktik_addons-extra
- lp:~openerp-community/openobject-client/taktik
- lp:~openerp-community/openobject-client-web/taktik

There will be different merges (this is NOT a fork from OpenERP trunk, it's a branch):
- (OpenERP trunk) TO (Taktik branch) for bug fixes managed by Taktik,
- (Taktik branch) TO merge proposal in (OpenERP trunk) managed by Tiny.
This way, Taktik will have control on it's own version of the OpenERP product.

The primary target, which is currently worked on, is a working/complete account module for Belgium.

The tests will be done using OpenERP Scenario.

Stay tuned for further developments.

As we got questions about the changes made on the trunk version of the GTK client, we propose the official v5.0.6 client bundled for Mac OS X 10.5 for Intel macs.

Hope that helps.

[EDIT]
This version has not been tested with Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard. Seems like there are some issues with 10.6.
We are working on this...

Once again, Taktik is pleased to provide to the community the Mac OS X version of OpenERP Client v5.0.6 (bzr rev 1006) to the community.
Note that that this version is from trunk and got some slight modifications from us.

Enjoy !

Hi everyone,

Koo stands for KDE OpenObject Client and is a native Qt client software for OpenERP.

It's been a couple of month since Taktik's latest package of Koo for Mac (Peter reminded us in the comments of the previous Koo post).
Here is a new packaged version of Koo for Mac OS X 10.5 : Koo rev 738.

Enjoy !

Following the OpenERP editors, Taktik is pleased to provide to the community the Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard version of OpenERP client v5.0.1.
Enjoy !

Open ERP server
Open ERP is based on Python and uses a PostgreSQL database.
Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard comes with Python 2.5 but not with all packages needed by Open ERP.
The PostgreSQL database needs to be installed too.

Here are the following packages needed to be installed.

Install using easy_install script provided with Python

/usr/bin/easy_install PyXML
Note
To make the system use the newly installe PyXML, you need to define an environement variable

export PY_USE_XMLPLUS=""

/usr/bin/easy_install pydot
/usr/bin/easy_install vobject


Install package PIL
PIL

Install the following packages, usually with a

/usr/bin/python setup.py

mx
reportlab
pychart
pytz
graphviz

Install the Ghostscript package
gplgs

Install xml stuff
libxml, libxslt, lxml

Install the PostgreSQL package
PostgreSQL

Install Psycopg2
Psycopg2

Install Open ERP server from linux sources
sources

Patch the server to make it work with Mac OS X
patch

Create an Open ERP user to make him run the server
Pick a unique ID in the list given by
dscl . -list /Users UniqueID

Put the id in the environment variable $GUID

export GUID=your_id

Create an unprivileged user

dscl . -create /Users/openerp
dscl . -create /Users/openerp UniqueID $GUID
dscl . -create /Users/openerp NFSHomeDirectory /var/empty
dscl . -create /Users/openerp UserShell /bin/sh
dscl . -create /Users/openerp PrimaryGroupID 1000
dscl . -create /Users/openerp RealName "openerp server"
dscl . -create /Users/openerp Password "*"
dseditgroup -o create -i 1000 -r "openerp group" openerp
dscl . -create /Groups/openerp Password "*"


Create an openerp role in PostgreSQL database
sudo -u postgres /usr/local/pgsql/bin/createuser openerp

Change files owner
chown -R openerp /usr/local/openerp

Put a launchd plist in /Library/LaunchDaemons to make the server start when the machine boots.
org.openerp.openerpserver.plist

Web client
The web client is based on TurboGears so we need to install it
TurboGears
python tgsetup.py

/usr/bin/easy_install pyparsing

Install Open ERP web client from linux sources
sources

Put a launchd plist in /Library/LaunchDaemons to make the web client start when the machine boots.
org.openerp.openerpweb.plist

As promised, Taktik is proud to provide a Koo packaged version for Mac OS X 10.5.
Koo stands for KDE OpenObject Client and is a native Qt client software for OpenERP.

KDE OpenObject Client - revision 621

As promised,Taktik is pleased to share with the community the native Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard Open ERP client v5.0.0


It is a native Mac OS X application (does not require X11)
Keyboard shortcuts have been mapped to Apple shortcuts :
cmd-q to quit cmd-o to open a connection, cmd-c/cmd-v to copy/paste.
We made a decent Mac OS X icon for the app (although, obviously, we are not graphics designers).
The application is fully functional (including NET-RPC and calendar view).

Feel free to report bugs or comments on this blog (http://devteam.taktik.org) or
at openerp-dev@taktik.be.

Open ERP (formerly named Tiny ERP) is an open source ERP/CRM system.
http://openerp.com/
The current stable version is v4.2.3.4 and a v5.0.0 RC3 (release
candidate 3 i.e. non stable) is also available for download on OpenERP
website.

Taktik is currently working on the OpenERP code to provide custom
implementation of this ERP to his clients.
As we, at Taktik, are developing on Apple Mac machines, we decided to
look for a decent Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard client for Open ERP.

On the OpenERP website, you can find an official client installer for
MS Windows, and sources. The official client is coded in python, using
GTK 2.0 and PyGTK to provide the graphical user interface.

On Mac OS X you can run most Unix/Linux apps using an X11 server
(freely provided by Apple) and mac ports projects like
fink. Nevertheless it provides poorly integrated app, with linux
look and feel.
Once installed PyGTK with fink and a few other packages, the official
client runs fine on Mac OS X.

Camp2camp company is providing efforts to package a GTK client
os Mac OS X, but it's not a "native" one, it runs on X11.
http://openerpcamptocamp.blogspot.com/

Looking for a "native" client, we found on Tinyforge an outdated GTK
client using a native GTK port on Mac OS X.
http://tinyforge.org/frs/?group_id=128

From the available software here and there on the internet, we knew it
would be possible to package the latest Open ERP client as a "native"
application on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, and we did it.

Here is the Open ERP client 4.2.3.4 app for Mac OS X Leopard.

One other option is to use Qt instead of GTK to render the graphical
interface. Qt is officially ported to Mac OS X and provided a deeper
integration with the system.
An Open ERP client using Qt is currently developed to provide integration with
the K Desktop Environment (KDE), as the GTK client is integrated with
the Gnome Desktop Environment.
The software is the KDE OpenObject Client or Koo in short.

We already packaged the stable GTK current version, in the following posts, we will deliver
the new Open ERP v5 Client and a Koo package for those who want a flavor of Qt...
Stay tuned....

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Here are the build instructions Taktik is pleased to share with the
community.
The goal is to package the sources with minimum patches, so we can
apply this recipe to further versions of the Open ERP client.

There are a few things to install in order to compile the native app.

First of all, you may have fink installed and you do not want it to
interfere with native version of software during compilation, so you
must remove fink from your path in your current bash.

We assume you download stuff in ~/Downloads
Get GTK-OSX and build it (instructions strongly inspired from Imendio)
http://developer.imendio.com/projects/gtk-macosx
http://live.gnome.org/GTK%2B/OSX/BuildInstructions

git clone git://github.com/rhult/gtk-osx-build.git
cd gtk-osx-build

Use the gtk osx build script from imendio and run it.
cp /Users/flydoire/Desktop/gtk-osx-build-setup.sh .
sh gtk-osx-build-setup.sh

Edit ~/.jhbuildrc-custom and add
moduleset = os.path.expanduser("~/Downloads/GTK-OSX/gtk-osx-build/modulesets/gtk-osx.modules")
modules = ['meta-gtk-osx-bootstrap', 'meta-gtk-osx-core', 'meta-gtk-osx-freetype']

Bootstrap the build
jhbuild bootstrap

Paths to some resources are not correct in the downloaded scripts so
you have to download resources manually and name it like the script
expect it will be named (names could change in further commits in git
...).

git clone git://github.com/rhult/gtk-osx-docbook.git
mv gtk-osx-docbook rhult-gtk-osx-docbook-b09115732e38f956730d6c0a23ff4e471ab0ead2
tar zcvf rhult-gtk-osx-docbook-b09115732e38f956730d6c0a23ff4e471ab0ead2.tar.gz \
rhult-gtk-osx-docbook-b09115732e38f956730d6c0a23ff4e471ab0ead2
mv rhult-gtk-osx-docbook-b09115732e38f956730d6c0a23ff4e471ab0ead2.tar.gz \
~/gtk/source/pkgs/rhult-gtk-osx-docbook-b09115732e38f956730d6c0a23ff4e471ab0ead2.tar.gz
cd ..
git clone git://github.com/rhult/gnome-doc-utils-fake.git
mv gnome-doc-utils-fake rhult-gnome-doc-utils-fake-ee6993e33d517ff05f55d78694e5edaa4da0bbd9
tar zcvf rhult-gnome-doc-utils-fake-ee6993e33d517ff05f55d78694e5edaa4da0bbd9.tar.gz \
rhult-gnome-doc-utils-fake-ee6993e33d517ff05f55d78694e5edaa4da0bbd9
mv rhult-gnome-doc-utils-fake-ee6993e33d517ff05f55d78694e5edaa4da0bbd9.tar.gz \
~/gtk/source/pkgs/rhult-gnome-doc-utils-fake-ee6993e33d517ff05f55d78694e5edaa4da0bbd9.tar.gz

Finally build GTK-OSX

jhbuild build meta-gtk-osx-bootstrap

Patch GTK to use CMD key instead of CTR (like a good Mac OS X app).
go to ~/gtk/source/gtk+/gdk and patch
patch -p0 < patch-command-key-gtk.patch

jhbuild build meta-gtk-osx-python
jhbuild build meta-gtk-osx-themes

Now you have GTK-OSX, you need some more stuff for the Open ERP
Client.

mxbase (egenix-mx-base-3.1.2.macosx-10.4-fat-py2.5_ucs2.prebuilt ) from
http://www.egenix.com/products/python/mxBase/
download here



#Fortran
http://r.research.att.com/tools/
http://r.research.att.com/gfortran-4.2.3.dmg

#FFW
http://www.fftw.org/download.html
ftp://ftp.fftw.org/pub/fftw/fftw-3.2.tar.gz
tar zxvf fftw-3.2.tar.gz
cd fftw-3.2/
./configure
make
sudo make install
sudo ln -s /usr/local/lib/libfftw3.a /usr/local/lib/libfftw.a
sudo ln -s /usr/local/lib/libfftw3.la /usr/local/lib/libfftw.la
sudo ln -s /usr/local/include/fftw3.h /usr/local/include/fftw.h

#scipy
http://ovh.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/scipy/scipy-0.6.0.tar.gz
python setup.py build_src build_clib --fcompiler=gnu95 build_ext --fcompiler=gnu95 build
sudo python setup.py install

#matplotlib
http://ovh.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/matplotlib/matplotlib-0.98.5.2.tar.gz
sudo ln -s /opt/local/include/gtk-2.0/gdk /usr/local/include/gdk
sudo ln -s /opt/local/include/gtk-2.0/gtk /usr/local/include/gtk
sudo ln -s /Users/flydoire/gtk/inst/include/pygtk-2.0/pygtk /usr/local/include/pygtk
sudo ln -s /Users/flydoire/gtk/inst/include/pygtk-2.0/pyglib.h /usr/local/include/pyglib.h
sudo ln -s /Users/flydoire/gtk/inst/include/pygtk-2.0/pygobject.h /usr/local/include/pygobject.h
sudo ln -s /opt/local/include/glib-2.0/glib.h /usr/local/include/glib.h
sudo ln -s /opt/local/lib/glib-2.0/include/glibconfig.h /usr/local/include/glibconfig.h
sudo ln -s /opt/local/include/glib-2.0/glib-object.h /usr/local/include/glib-object.h
sudo ln -s /opt/local/include/glib-2.0/gmodule.h /usr/local/include/gmodule.h
sudo ln -s /opt/local/include/glib-2.0/glib /usr/local/include/glib
sudo ln -s /opt/local/include/glib-2.0/gobject /usr/local/include/gobject
sudo ln -s /opt/local/include/glib-2.0/gio /usr/local/include/gio
sudo ln -s /opt/local/include/cairo/cairo.h /usr/local/include/cairo.h
sudo ln -s /opt/local/include/cairo/cairo-version.h /usr/local/include/cairo-version.h
sudo ln -s /opt/local/include/cairo/cairo-features.h /usr/local/include/cairo-features.h
sudo ln -s /opt/local/include/cairo/cairo-deprecated.h /usr/local/include/cairo-deprecated.h
sudo ln -s /opt/local/include/pango-1.0/pango /usr/local/include/pango
sudo ln -s /opt/local/lib/gtk-2.0/include/gdkconfig.h /usr/local/include/gdkconfig.h
sudo ln -s /opt/local/include/gtk-2.0/gdk-pixbuf /usr/local/include/gdk-pixbuf
sudo ln -s /opt/local/include/atk-1.0/atk /usr/local/include/atk
python setup.py build
sudo python setup.py install

Then get this archive and unzip it.
Adjust the parameters in the file package.sh and run the script
sh ./package.sh

You should end with a dmg containing a nice and clean bundled app.
Enjoy !

Create an .inputrc file in your home directory with the following content :

set completion-ignore-case on

How the Finder can determine which application handles a particular file on MacOS X?
How the Finder can distinguish a bundle from a simple folder ? *
How the Finder can set the document's icon.
All these operations are handled by the MacOS X Launch Service. This service uses a database to record informations about all applications.
By example, when the finder copies an application on the hard drive from a distant volume or any other device, it populates the registry with the informations contained in the Content.plist file.

You can explore and modify the Launch Service database with a the little tool called lsregister located at path /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/LaunchServices.framework/Versions/A/Support/lsregister.



(*) the finder examinates also the HFS+ bundle flag on a folder to detect a bundle. You can use the developer tool SetFile to switch on/off the flag

I found this important remark in the Core Animation programming guide :

The instance of MenuView is set as the layer-hosting view of rootLayer. The order of these two calls is important. By first setting the layer to rootLayer and then setting setWantsLayer: to YES our layer is used rather than the one that the view would create. This is the key difference between layer-hosting views and layer-backed views.

[self setLayer:rootLayer];
[self setWantsLayer:YES];

For this first tip, I just want to help you performing basic operations like generating digests (MD5, SHA1, …) or dealing with asymetric keys in your programs.

On the Mac OS X platform, there are basically two libraries providing these crypto capabilities :

1 - openSSL
2 - Apple CDSA

For the first one, just import the header(s) you need from /usr/include/openssl and then link your product with the /usr/lib/libsecurity.dylib.
With CDSA, you have to add the /System/Library/Frameworks/Security.framework to your Xcode project and then link your product with it.

It seems to me that openSSL is easier to use but the choice between these two libraries may be triggered by politics.

For the CDSA documentation, I strongly recommend you to download and read the examples provided by Apple : CryptoSample