Hi MAC Users,
Quite a few of you have downloaded my Legacy "File/Folder/Picture
Choosers" for MAC (on one particular day the download was well over 1
GB), but so far I have not received a single word of feedback
.................. (?).
How about it guys?
Do they run OK on your MAC?
(All you really need to do to give me a quick answer is to double-click
on the standalone widget files - without necessarily using either INI
files or the DEMO. Also, just see whether they correctly detect
pre-inserted media such as DVDs and pendrives. A full review is not
expected on my part.)
Bob
P.S.
The widgets for Linux, Windows and Mac (Legacy and Unicode) come with
all the bells and whistles necessary for exact tailoring, which might
represent a complication to some people. If I am encouraged to do so, I
might later produce some "generic" versions to facilitate their speedy
and simple usage.
On 18-02-2015 23:31, Bob Warren wrote:
A few days back I finished doing a few minor corrections to my Unicode
"File/Folder/Picture Choosers" for Windows and Linux, and declared
them "stable". If you download them, please test them well before
distributing them in any way, to make absolutely sure they are as
"stable" as I think they are.
I then had an idea. I had had a first-generation Mac Mini sitting in
the corner of my computer room for a long time, and I hadn't done much
with it. (One reason is that it had a broken DVD drive.) It occurred
to me that since the Mac file system is not so different to that of
Linux, it might not be too difficult to produce some chooser widgets
for Mac as well. Of course, they would need to be "legacy" (English
only) widgets, because the machine had OS X Tiger 10.4 that was not
supported by LiveCode/Unicode. So I had a bash at it. I rolled the
Linux and Windows widgets together, and soon came up with a new set of
MAC chooser widgets that had reached what I might fairly call the
"beta" stage. However, the very day after, my Mini started going a bit
crazy, and like a drip I didn't realize immediately that the cooling
system had failed and that it was overheating. The end result is that
now I have a "fried" Mac Mini. I do not intend to buy another one. In
Brazil (my country of residence), Macs are impossibly expensive. If I
replaced my simple Mini with an equivalent modern one, it would cost
me $1,500 (which you might find difficult to believe). You now know
why Macs are extremely rare in Brazil!
Luckily, I had not only finished the programs, I had taken a few
screenshots. I was therefore able to put the widgets up at my site:
GENERAL INFO:
http://www.howsoft.com/runrev/runrev_stacks_index.htm
MAC CHOOSERS PAGE:
http://www.howsoft.com/runrev/macchoosers/
DOWNLOADS:
http://www.howsoft.com/runrev/downloads/
Under the circumstances (of my now being "Macless"), I'd be grateful
if any of you could tell me:
a) whether these widgets work on a "real" MAC;
b) whether they are stable enough for usage in your opinion;
c) whether they detect DVD drives correctly as well as other USB
devices such as pendrives and external HDs.
Thanks!
Regards to all.
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