I think I understand the problem with that lab on the mac. On both windows
and linux the mbopen and mbsave dialogs are nearly identical and have an
edit field for a file name. Because of the lack of difference, some
applications incorrectly use mbopen when they should use mbsave. On the mac
the mbopen does not have the file name edit field.
My assumption is that the lab (or perhaps project manager) has mbopen when
it should have mbsave. We will try to fix this for you in the next beta.
Our apologies for taking so long to track down this problem.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian Schott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "General forum" <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2008 7:43 AM
Subject: [Jgeneral] Building Application lab [was in Beta forum]
I am moving this to the general forum from the Beta
forum because I get exactly the same problem in J601: there
ain't no $#!*& run.ijs file and there is no opportunity to
type it in to a file save dialog on my Mac (as Chris
suggested in his reply).
The following screenshot shows what I mean in J602,
but it may be slow to load because it is on my homegrown
server.
http://schott.selfip.net/~brian/projectmanagerlab.png
Has anyone successfully completed the Building
Applications Lab on a Mac? Actually, at this point I would
be interested to find if anyone has completed this Lab on a
Windows computer.
Thank you,
(B=)
On Fri, 15 Feb 2008, Chris Burke wrote:
+ Brian Schott wrote:
+ > I cannot do the following step in this lab because
+ > there is no file named run.ijs . And, btw, shouldn't the
+ > full name of that file in the instructions be preceded by ~
+ > ?
+ >
+ > session excerpt below ****************************
+ >
+ > -- ((3) 5 of 8) File build
+ > ----------------------------------
+ > Now create a single file containing the application, as
+ > follows:
+ >
+ > 1. Select the Project tab.
+ >
+ > 2. Use the Add button to add a Target file in your user
+ > directory of:
+ >
+ > user\projects\first\run.ijs
+ >
+ > 3. click Build to build the file.
+ > )
+
+ when you first run this lab, there will be no file run.ijs. Step 2 above
+ creates the file. Just type in the name "run" in the Add|Target File
dialog.
+
+ The paths shown in the text are not preceded by ~ . For one thing, the
+ lab was written before the ~ prefix was developed. But in any case, I am
+ not sure it is needed - all we are doing is creating a project
+ directory, which could be anywhere, but typically would be under the
+ user directory.
+
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