Ed, in the virtual device window while windows running go to:
devices and then: Install guest Additions, try to see if it solves the
problem.
On Sep 17, 2009, at 5:42 PM, [email protected] wrote:
On Sep 16, 2009, at 8:51 PM, Miles Dempster wrote:
I run Windows XP under Parallels on my Intel Mac.It allows me
to run
any Windows application,
So do all these solutions require Windows?
Django expects to interact with library code provided with windows, it
needs windows or something that will behave like windows; the mac OS
doesnt provide that, so you need to instal something clever, wine
has been
mentioned, there may be other stuf.
The underlying issue is lack of a generic GUI that developers can
write
for and expect to function on at least the major platforms. over
90% of
an applications code deals with proprietary OS API interface issues,
most
of that is the GUI, tho some is events, filesystem and other OS-
specific
stuff. For obvious profit-motivated reasons none of the commercial
OS's
want to encourage unification, and few of the free-ware efforts
managed to
get off the ground. Apple's minority share of the marketplace
encouraged
it to take a shot, but its several efforts didnt get going. Java came
close, and still survives, but has a weakness in that the several java
machine implementations are not equivalent (as was intended).
Besides the obvious software issues, there are also hardware issues
- each
processor chip has its own way of representing dat, doing
calculations,
interfacing with hardware ... Different conentions have developed
independantly for how one spells a filename, how one express a
filename
path, how one refers to volumes; what meta-data is recorded for a file
(acccess permission, touch dates, program/icon associativity). Over
time
the capabilitys of each OS are brought closer to each other by the one
thing they have in common, the generic user; but it takes time for
evolution to flatten it all out.
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