Thanks for info, we will try the new build and let you know. I think it will be a day or two before I see my student again.
I found the docs for how to build from current source and have done a build on my Mac (Leopard) and the process worked perfectly. Haven't had a chance to try to build from current source on Tiger yet. Larry On Dec 28, 2007 9:36 AM, why the lucky stiff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Dec 28, 2007 at 09:08:21AM -0900, larry talley wrote: > > I happen to have a Macbook with OSX Leopard, and the standard OSX > > Shoes download installs fine for me (shoes-0.r327-intel.dmg). My > > student has OSX Tiger, and when he installs Shoes, it doesn't work > > perfectly. His Shoes executable will start, it creates a process that > > we can see visually (there is a window on his screen), and we can see > > the process in the process list (ps), but, we can't make the Shoes > > process a "foreground" application. We can't click on the Shoes > > window, we can't ever see a Shoes menu, etc. When we tire of trying > > to communicate with the Shoes process we have to kill the process to > > make it go away. > > This is such a common problem and I'm very sorry for the trouble. So > glad that you came to the list and are sticking with it. These bug > reports are essential to the future stompings of Shoes. > > First off, there is a slightly newer installer you can try: > <http://code.whytheluckystiff.net/dist/shoes-0.r351-intel-novideo.dmg> > I should have another new build out within a day or two. > > Secondly, you are installing into Applications, right? Are you > running from the commandline or clicking on the icon? > > Unfortunately, the Shoes tarball is geared toward Linux only, > building from source on OS X is a bit arduous and must be done from > a checked-out copy of trunk. There is a BuildingShoes page on the > wiki that describes this. > > Please keep me closely updated, Larry! > > _why >
