Re: Screensaver won't run on 10.6 even after porting to 64-bit

2009-10-13 Thread David Duncan
On Oct 13, 2009, at 7:44 AM, Ben Haller wrote: Yes, but NSInteger is 10.5 or later; I'm keeping 10.4 compatibility for now. Anyhow, those uses were all in my own internal logic, which can stay using 32-bit ints. NSInteger is just a typedef defined in the 10.5+ SDKs. It doesn't actually

Re: Screensaver won't run on 10.6 even after porting to 64-bit

2009-10-13 Thread Ben Haller
On 12-Oct-09, at 8:14 PM, Charles Srstka wrote: On Oct 11, 2009, at 9:46 PM, Ben Haller wrote: Most of the bugs I had to fix were related to either using "long" instead of "int", or needing a -finalize method. You should actually probably be using NSInteger instead of either of those thes

Re: Screensaver won't run on 10.6 even after porting to 64-bit

2009-10-12 Thread Charles Srstka
On Oct 11, 2009, at 9:46 PM, Ben Haller wrote: Most of the bugs I had to fix were related to either using "long" instead of "int", or needing a -finalize method. You should actually probably be using NSInteger instead of either of those these days. There's actually a ConvertCocoa64 script

Re: Screensaver won't run on 10.6 even after porting to 64-bit

2009-10-12 Thread Greg Parker
On Oct 11, 2009, at 7:46 PM, Ben Haller wrote: Besides that, I just needed to change a few retains and releases around, because I was mixing CF calls and Cocoa calls in an inconsistent way in a few places. And that was it; as far as I can tell, it now runs nicely on all the target platform

re: Screensaver won't run on 10.6 even after porting to 64-bit

2009-10-11 Thread Mr. George Warner
On Sun, 11 Oct 2009 15:02:22 -0400, Ben Haller > wrote: > Hi folks. So my screensaver broke on 10.6, along with everybody > else's, and I'm told that's because it has to be compiled for the 64- > bit architecture, because System Prefs is a 64-bit app on 10.6. So I > set up a conditional compil

Re: Screensaver won't run on 10.6 even after porting to 64-bit

2009-10-11 Thread Michael Babin
On Oct 11, 2009, at 2:44 PM, Ben Haller wrote: My only question: what's the best way to switch at compile time based on whether GC is enabled for the build? I.e. what do I #if or #ifdef? I could do it based on the arch or the SDK, but if there's a flag specifically for GC I'd rather use

Re: Screensaver won't run on 10.6 even after porting to 64-bit

2009-10-11 Thread Kyle Sluder
On Oct 11, 2009, at 7:05 PM, Michael Ash wrote: Now, I *think* that 10.4 actually has stub versions of all these calls which work correctly for the non-GC case which will always be found on 10.4, but it's manifestly not the case that there aren't any GC-specific calls to make. Any code compiled

Re: Screensaver won't run on 10.6 even after porting to 64-bit

2009-10-11 Thread Michael Ash
On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 4:08 PM, Clark Cox wrote: > On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 1:06 PM, Ben Haller > wrote: >> On 11-Oct-09, at 3:52 PM, Kyle Sluder wrote: >> >>> On Oct 11, 2009, at 12:44 PM, Ben Haller >>> wrote: >>> OK, makes sense.  My only question: what's the best way to switch at c

Re: Screensaver won't run on 10.6 even after porting to 64-bit

2009-10-11 Thread Clark Cox
On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 2:57 PM, Ben Haller wrote: > On 11-Oct-09, at 5:28 PM, Clark Cox wrote: > >> On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 1:55 PM, Ben Haller >> wrote: >>> >>>  Well, I imagine I'm going to need to use *something* GC-specific -- >>> strong/weak declarations, >> >> Not likely. >> >>> finalize m

Re: Screensaver won't run on 10.6 even after porting to 64-bit

2009-10-11 Thread Ben Haller
On 11-Oct-09, at 5:28 PM, Clark Cox wrote: On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 1:55 PM, Ben Haller wrote: Well, I imagine I'm going to need to use *something* GC-specific -- strong/weak declarations, Not likely. finalize methods, whatever. Implementing finalize methods are actually quite rare; and

Re: Screensaver won't run on 10.6 even after porting to 64-bit

2009-10-11 Thread Clark Cox
On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 1:55 PM, Ben Haller wrote: > On 11-Oct-09, at 4:11 PM, Kyle Sluder wrote: > >> On Oct 11, 2009, at 1:06 PM, Ben Haller >> wrote: >> >>> Yes, but my code also needs to compile as GC-unsupported against the 10.4 >>> SDK, where any GC-specific calls that I might need to make

Re: Screensaver won't run on 10.6 even after porting to 64-bit

2009-10-11 Thread Ben Haller
On 11-Oct-09, at 4:11 PM, Kyle Sluder wrote: On Oct 11, 2009, at 1:06 PM, Ben Haller wrote: Yes, but my code also needs to compile as GC-unsupported against the 10.4 SDK, where any GC-specific calls that I might need to make will not compile. Am I missing something? Do you really need

Re: Screensaver won't run on 10.6 even after porting to 64-bit

2009-10-11 Thread Kyle Sluder
On Oct 11, 2009, at 1:06 PM, Ben Haller wrote: Yes, but my code also needs to compile as GC-unsupported against the 10.4 SDK, where any GC-specific calls that I might need to make will not compile. Am I missing something? Do you really need to compile against the 10.4 SDK? Why not comp

Re: Screensaver won't run on 10.6 even after porting to 64-bit

2009-10-11 Thread Clark Cox
On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 1:06 PM, Ben Haller wrote: > On 11-Oct-09, at 3:52 PM, Kyle Sluder wrote: > >> On Oct 11, 2009, at 12:44 PM, Ben Haller >> wrote: >> >>> OK, makes sense.  My only question: what's the best way to switch at >>> compile time based on whether GC is enabled for the build?  I.e

Re: Screensaver won't run on 10.6 even after porting to 64-bit

2009-10-11 Thread Ben Haller
On 11-Oct-09, at 3:52 PM, Kyle Sluder wrote: On Oct 11, 2009, at 12:44 PM, Ben Haller wrote: OK, makes sense. My only question: what's the best way to switch at compile time based on whether GC is enabled for the build? I.e. what do I #if or #ifdef? I could do it based on the arch or

Re: Screensaver won't run on 10.6 even after porting to 64-bit

2009-10-11 Thread Kyle Sluder
On Oct 11, 2009, at 12:44 PM, Ben Haller wrote: OK, makes sense. My only question: what's the best way to switch at compile time based on whether GC is enabled for the build? I.e. what do I #if or #ifdef? I could do it based on the arch or the SDK, but if there's a flag specifically

Re: Screensaver won't run on 10.6 even after porting to 64-bit

2009-10-11 Thread Ben Haller
On 11-Oct-09, at 3:28 PM, Clark Cox wrote: On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 12:23 PM, Dave Keck wrote: So I guess System Preferences doesn't like my garbage collection setting (which is set to "Unsupported"). Do I really need to turn GC on to get my screensaver to work? Yes, your screensaver m

Re: Screensaver won't run on 10.6 even after porting to 64-bit

2009-10-11 Thread Clark Cox
On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 12:23 PM, Dave Keck wrote: >>  So I guess System Preferences doesn't like my garbage collection setting >> (which is set to "Unsupported").  Do I really need to turn GC on to get my >> screensaver to work? > > Yes, your screensaver must be GC-supported to support Snow Leopa

Re: Screensaver won't run on 10.6 even after porting to 64-bit

2009-10-11 Thread Dave Keck
>  So I guess System Preferences doesn't like my garbage collection setting > (which is set to "Unsupported").  Do I really need to turn GC on to get my > screensaver to work? Yes, your screensaver must be GC-supported to support Snow Leopard. This bit me recently too - I wasn't expecting it eithe