[Openmcl-devel] App Development Tools Contrib

[Paul Krueger]

It wasn't my intent to do anything that explicitly required 10.6, but without the ability to test anywhere else I suppose I shouldn't be all that surprised that something didn't work. Most of this worked on my system before I upgraded to 10.6 last summer, but who knows what I did to break things since then.

Check the console log for any messages there and let me know if you see anything interesting; you usually will when things crash (use the Console application found in /Application/Utilities). The code depends on the NIB for the window and given that yours hung when you tried to open a window it's possible that the format of the NIB changed and the newer version caused a problem on your system (I was actually a victim of that with a NIB generated by somebody else once). 

If console messages lead us in that direction, then one thing we might try is for me to send the nib in .xib format and let someone using 10.5 see if that will open in InterfaceBuilder (it might not). If it did, they could then save it as a .nib. One caveat here is that whoever does this would need to have also built my lisp-controller IB plugin and installed it. That's pretty much mandatory anyway if you want to use the tools going forward. That process is documented in the "LispController Ref" document (either pdf or rtfd versions). If somebody wants to try that on a 10.5 system, please send me email privately and I'll send the .xib version to try. If that all works I'll check in .xib versions of all my NIB files and recommend that people convert them for earlier OS versions.

BTW, I'm not ungrateful at all, quite the opposite. I want this to work for as many people as possible.

Paul

On Jan 21, 2011, at 4:08 PM, Paul Onions wrote:

> On 20 Jan 2011, at 15:58, Paul Krueger wrote:
> 
>> If you are not interested in developing your own stand-alone Macintosh application using CCL, you can ignore the rest of this email.
> ...
> 
> Is there a minimal OS version required? I'm on OSX 10.5.8 (PowerPC) and although I can compile and load your contrib using (require :lisp-app-doc), when I select "New Lisp Application" from the File menu I get a beach ball followed a few seconds later by a crash notification.
> 
> BTW I don't want to seem ungrateful here. I can see you have put an enormous amount of effort into this and your documentation is excellent. I will understand completely if my old system is not supported anymore.
> 
> Best regards,
> Paul
> 
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> Paul Onions
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