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stoneb3
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Joined 06-05-2011 status: Guru |
Thank you Vikas. I had to get a helper.
Would it be necessary to upgrade to 10.9 to function the app?
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VikasSharma
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Joined 10-05-2010 status: Guru |
Hopefully.
I don’t think so although feedback from others would be helpful as I’ve no way of confirming this.
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meatballfulton
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On a MacBook Pro running 10.6.8 when I launch the app I get the “quit unexpectedly” error. On an iMac running 10.7.5 I get the same error. |
RobinVT
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Joined 01-16-2012 status: Enthusiast |
I tried again,Vikas, but it still doesn’t open. So I looked at the console window to see what I can decipher and this is what it showed. I don’t know if that will help. 3/1/14 11:27:18.145 AM com.apple.launchd.peruser.502[149]: ([0x0-0x1f01f].motif2text-1.1[281]) Exited with code: 1 |
VikasSharma
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Thank you stoneb3, meatballfulton, and robinvt for your feedback! It appears that there definitely is some issue with the app that awaits discovery (and hopefully a resolution too). Surprisingly, I have NOT got any errors so far while running this app on my MacBook Pro (specs attached) - absolutely none so far! I think some more research is required on my part to really identify and try to resolve the problem. Being very new to development on the Mac, it’s likely that this might take longer than expected. Till then, it would be helpful if some more fellows can try to run the app and provide their feedback. Is there even a single person out there (except me) who has managed to successfully run the app on their Mac? Image Attachments
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alanb
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Joined 02-15-2009 status: Enthusiast |
Does not work on my MacBook Pro
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Michael Trigoboff
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This clearly hasn’t been as trouble-free as we had hoped. We’re working on figuring it out. Stay tuned… |
RobinVT
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Hi Vikas,
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VikasSharma
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I did receive the logs from you (robinvt), stoneb3, meatballfulton, and wizardgraphics. Thank you very much all of you! The logs helped a lot in analyzing the issues. As it appears, there is no problem with the app as such. However, in order to work correctly, it depends on some libraries (Tcl/Tk, CoreText, etc.) to be available at particular places in the target computer, which may or may not be there depending upon various things. We’re trying to get this resolved (rest assured). For those who’re interested, we initially used cx_Freeze for porting the Windows version of motif2text to Mac (This version was posted in the 1st post of this thread). It did work on my MacBook Pro but did not work on most other systems. Later, we used py2app for porting the Windows version to Mac (I had the sent the download link of this version to all of you for testing). Again, it worked on my system but didn’t on others. The original code was written using Python3.x by Michael Trigoboff. He has very kindly converted it to Python2.x (which comes pre-installed on most Mac systems). The last 2-3 days have been very hectic for me at work but (as soon as get the time) I’m going to port it again and take your help in testing. Again, it may or not work but we’ll try. There are other ways of doing it (like writing a Mac app from scratch using Cocoa and Objective-C using Xcode development platform) but that entails learning a lot of new stuff before anything worthwhile can be done. For the record, when I was asked to try porting the app to Mac around 10-days back, I had no idea about the Python programming language and had not even heard about cx_Freeze and py2app. Fingers crossed. |
Michael Trigoboff
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Rewriting it from scratch should not be necessary. And given the amount of work that would entail, I think it’s worth trying all of the other possibilities first.
That’s an amazing amount of progress in 10 days. |
stoneb3
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Joined 06-05-2011 status: Guru |
I wouldn’t know but I can’t disagree. No doubt he has other things to do as well. I’d mark him down as a pretty cool dude. Stone |
Michael Trigoboff
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A new version of motif2text for the Mac has just been released. You can download it from the first message in this thread. |
Stephan
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This version is working for me.
Mac mini
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VikasSharma
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Finally. Thanks for your feedback. Also, a big ‘thank you’ to stoneb3, wizardgraphics, meatballfulton, and robinvt for your feedback through PMs which helped a lot in resolving this. This build also includes an icon for the app. All of you are requested to provide your feedback on the app and also report issues/bugs (if any) here in this thread. |
stoneb3
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Joined 06-05-2011 status: Guru |
Sorry for the delay.
Stone |