Ian,
Well, the symlink thing is right there on the jwiki page -
I imagine that I gave up before it appeared there, and I just
dropped back to 802.
Yes, I found that I could drag the green icon to the dock
and it would stay there. Your trick of making a copy of jqt.app
is very nice. I sometimes want two instances of J running and
that makes it easy. Thanks.
Patrick
On Fri, 7 Aug 2015, Ian Clark wrote:
@Patrick
Reading your post reminded me that getting j803 to run on my iMac
wasn't that simple.
I had forgotten what I did. But I see I made notes, assuming I'd forget :-)
Briefly it seems I followed the instructions here:
http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/System/Installation/J803#Mac
I tried adapting these instructions to installing J804, including
aliasing missing dylibs to likely substitutes, plus copying dylibs
from someone who was running Yosemite. But I couldn't get it to work,
and after Bill's post (around May 2015), I stopped trying.
I have the green and yellow J's in my Dock. But I think I had to drag
them there from /Applications/j64-803/
BTW - one nice thing I discovered, is to duplicate jqt.app and rename
it, e.g. to jqt2.app.
This lets me run two independent copies of jqt - albeit using the same
config files etc. They don't seem to tread on each others' toes. I use
this to see two separate copies of the Edit window so I can compare
different projects side-by-side. Inability to do so with a single
jqt.app running is a notable shortcoming. (Or maybe I just have crazy
ways of working.)
On Fri, Aug 7, 2015 at 4:39 PM, J. Patrick Harrington <[email protected]>
wrote:
Bill,
With that symlink, I have no trouble running jqt from the green icon:
JVERSION
Engine: j803/2014-10-19-11:11:11
Library: 8.03.13
Qt IDE: 1.3.1/5.3.2
Platform: Darwin 64
Installer: J803 install
InstallPath: /users/jph/j64-803
Only odd thing is that the icon does not appear in the dock. And if I
try to start it with j64-803/bin/jqt I get:
This application failed to start because it could not find or load the Qt
platform plugin "cocoa".
Reinstalling the application may fix this problem.
Abort
I have not tried reinstalling.
Patrick
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