Greetings Hackers - I'm enjoying compose a ton so ...

# multiplatform

[Jason H]

Greetings Hackers - I'm enjoying compose a ton so far coming from Swing. It's sweet! I have a mac and windows-only app right now. Happy to send some beer/wine/tequila 🍺 cash if anyone can provide just a little guidance. I'm stuck here. I'm pretty new to MacOS. I'm only playing in Intelli-J so far, but happy to fire up XCode if needed.

[ephemient]

https://github.com/JetBrains/compose-multiplatform/blob/master/tutorials/Native_distributions_and_local_execution/README.md

[Landry Norris]

Can't help with the text portion, but I wrote a prototype of updating the dock using Compose. It supports updating the dock icon as the app runs. http://github.com/LandryNorris/ComposeMacosDock

[Pablichjenkov]

You can ask in #compose-desktop too

[ephemient]

according to the docs,

compose.desktop {
    application {
        nativeDistributions {
            macOS {
                dockName = "..."
                iconFile.set(...)
            }
        }
    }
}

[ephemient]

but you should read through the rest of it yourself

[Jason H]

Holy community 🦇man! Wow. THANK YOU from Florida USA!

[Jason H]

I tried dockName but it didn't seemingly have any effect. I went through running it directly in Intelli-J and the packageDmg target. No 🎲 . 😞 The packageReleaseDmg fails with some proguardReleaseJars error, so hopefully I don't need it.

[ephemient]

can't really help much more since I don't use macos, but check if it's in the app's Info.plist, and for further help check with #compose-desktop as suggested earlier

[Jeff Lockhart]

Make sure you're building with runDistributable (or runReleaseDistributable) and not just run. The menu name is only configured in distributable builds.

[Jason H]

@Jeff Lockhart well that's forward progress! Not the launch.icns I was pointing to:

macOS {
    bundleID = packageName
    val iconsRoot = project.file("src/main/resources/")
    iconFile.set(iconsRoot.resolve("launch.icns"))
    targetFormats(TargetFormat.Dmg)
    this.packageName = "LaunchPad"
    dockName = "LaunchPad"
    setDockNameSameAsPackageName = true
    dmgPackageVersion = appVersion
    pkgPackageVersion = appVersion
}

But even this beats the generic java icon, lol!

[Jason H]

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[Jason H]

small update...not sure what gives, I wish I could combine gradle's runRelease & runDistributable, any ideas? @Jeff Lockhart

[Jason H]

Relevant gradle snippet:

macOS {
    bundleID = packageName
    iconFile.set(iconsRoot.resolve("launch.icns"))
    targetFormats(TargetFormat.Dmg)
    this.packageName = "LaunchPad"
    dockName = "LaunchPad"
    setDockNameSameAsPackageName = true
    dmgPackageVersion = appVersion
    pkgPackageVersion = appVersion
}

[Jason H]

what I really would like is a DMG that "just works"™️ but proguard is being painful. I don't want to deal with apple/notarization yet.

[Jeff Lockhart]

I wish I could combine gradle's runRelease & runDistributable

There is runReleaseDistributable, which should do this.

[Jason H]

yeah that bad boy (runReleaseDistributable) dies on proguard for me. I need to dive into proguard. The proguard stdout/stderr is rough: 642 warnings, 1 error, but I can't find the error (the error log file is empty, and can't see it in stdout).

Does runReleaseDistributable create a dmg? I'm guessing not.

Example proguard warning:
kotlinx.datetime.serializers.DateBasedDateTimeUnitSerializer: can't find superclass or interface kotlinx.serialization.internal.AbstractPolymorphicSerializer

[Jeff Lockhart]

If you don't want to mess with proguard and don't need it, you can disable it:

compose.desktop {
    application {
        buildTypes.release.proguard.isEnabled = false
    }
}

[Jeff Lockhart]

packageDmg should create a .dmg, if it's configured:

compose.desktop {
    application {
        nativeDistributions {
            targetFormats(TargetFormat.Dmg)
        }
    }
}