Hi there I don't really know what's involved, but you might suggest to them that they would want to be recognized as a Apple developer for the Mac portion of what they're doing. In my case, my security settings won't let me download anything that is not either from the app store or from a recognized developer. I really don't want to change that. Regards, Gigi
Sent from my iPhone On Feb 22, 2013, at 11:22 AM, Scott Berry <sb356...@gmail.com> wrote: > Actually no there is a guy named Alex that did the I think it was a .dmg file > for the Mqac. I can certainly find out. > > On 2/22/13 9:49, Erik Burggraaf wrote: >> Hi, I know that john is a linux user, and I know he's aware of the mac. Most >> of the testers and other developers are on windows though. As far as I know, >> I was the only mac tester at the time I was involved with the project. >> >> Best, >> >> >> >> Scott Berry <sb356...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Actually Eric I'd like to correct your statement just a bit the main >> developer is a full time Linux user who develops this on Linux and does >> have access to a Mac. I'll touch basis with them and if people are >> alright I'll send a few of these emails out to their mailing list and >> see what comes of this. >> >> >> >> On 2/21/13 18:46, erik burggraaf wrote: >> >> In defence of braille blaster, it's only been a going concern >> for a year and a half. They're trying to support three >> operating systems. They had no funding at all lat time I was >> in touch with the project. And, most of their user base and >> contributing developers are using windows as a primary os. If >> there are mac people here with java experience who can >> contribute to the project, we'd all appreciate it. Best, Erik >> Burggraaf Follow my series of articles about setting up a >> small business through the ontario disability support program >> at http://www.erik-burggraaf.com/blog Ebony Consulting >> toll-free: 1-888-255-5194 or on the web at >> http://www.erik-burggraaf.com On 2013-02-21, at 8:04 PM, >> "Henry D. Hollithron" <teetah1...@gmail.com >> <mailto:teetah1...@gmail.com>> wrote: >> >> Good Day: Indeed. This program appears to be quite prone >> to crashing. I realise that it is open-source and thus not >> meant to be perfect, but I don't think it's yet ready for >> stable use. The exception thrown by the program that you >> copied below occurs, I think, when it pops up a dialog >> stating that "the braille facility is not available," >> whatever that means, and when you indicate that you don't >> want to continue. Even when I did get past that, when I >> tried to launch the tutorial from the help menu, it did >> open safari, but it also crashed the java runtime >> environment. Perhaps I should send an email to the >> developers to see if they're still planning to work on >> this. For now, though, I wouldn't use it for production >> use. As for Louis, it is free, but I've had very little >> luck getting it to translate complicated documents--it >> keeps giving me blank braille files. It does, however, >> have the virtue of being significantly more stable and >> might, based on comments from other people who have used >> it successfully, be able to translate your document if >> it's simple enough. Perhaps someone more experienced with >> the program could give you better help in that direction. >> Here is the web page for it, in case you're interested: >> http://www.cucat.org/projects/louis HTH: Henry Education >> never ends. It is a series of lessons, with the greatest >> for the last. Sherlock Homes On 21 Feb 2013, at 19:06, >> Mark Baxter <markbaxte...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Okay, and here's what I get when I try and launch it >> from terminal: ror at >> org.brailleblaster.Main.main(Unknown Source) Caused >> by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: >> org.eclipse.swt.SWTError at java.net >> >> <http://java.net>.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:202) >> at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native >> Method) at java.net >> >> <http://java.net>.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:190) >> at >> java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:306) >> at >> sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:301) >> at >> java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:247) >> ... 1 more mark-baxters-macbook-pro:~ MBH$ • Mark >> BurningHawk Baxter • AIM, Skype and Twitter: >> BurningHawk1969 • MSN: burninghawk1...@hotmail.com • >> My home page: • http://MarkBurningHawk.net/ -- You >> received this message because you are subscribed to >> the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. 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