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Ghoser777 · Jun 10, 2002, 12:05 AM

Yes, that's right. I have written a program (which I really like) which seems to refuse to run on other macs. (Yes, they have OS X on them). it runs fine on my machine, so this makes debugging near impossible. So, could someone download it and see if it even opens? I especially want to see if anyone catches any errors in Console.app. *Sigh* This problem *might* be caused because I'm using the April Beta Dev Tools...

Just so you know, it's another RPN calc, which I think is really cool, but that's not really my main interest right now. I just want to figure out why it won;t launch!
<a href="http://www.students.uiuc.edu/~fahrenba/computers/MathRPN.tgz" target="_blank">MathRPN</a>

Thanks,
F-bacher

Chuckit · Jun 10, 2002, 12:33 AM

It's looking for /Users/fahrenba/Projects/Omni/OmniAppKit/build/OmniAppKit.framework/Versions/2001A/OmniAppKit, and obviously not finding it. I think that would be your problem.

Mactoid · Jun 10, 2002, 02:04 AM

Ghoser, in case you're curious, Chuckit probably found the problem simply by checking the error message written to the console (viewable with Console.app). You ought to add that to your list of useful debugging tricks.

Rickster · Jun 10, 2002, 05:22 AM

See <a href="http://www.cocoadevcentral.com/tutorials/showpage.php?show=00000037.php" target="_blank">this tutorial</a> for how to bundle your frameworks in your app wrapper so your users don't have this problem.

Chuckit · Jun 10, 2002, 07:43 AM

<blockquote>quote:<hr />Originally posted by Mactoid:
Ghoser, in case you're curious, Chuckit probably found the problem simply by checking the error message written to the console (viewable with Console.app). You ought to add that to your list of useful debugging tricks.<hr /></blockquote>Well, actually, looking in the console log was part of Ghoser's request. It sounds like his wasn't turning up any errors because OmniAppKit is installed there on his hard drive.

Ghoser777 · Jun 10, 2002, 08:22 AM

Thanks a lot guys! I think I would have sat here hitting my head against the wall for th next couple weeks without your help.

F-bacher

Ghoser777 · Jun 10, 2002, 09:36 AM

Okay, I followed their instructions to a T, and it builds fine... but now my app size is 18.1MBs! (it was 200k). I understand that My app size should go up by using the OmniFrameworks, which is fine and all, but not this much! I had a friend who mas making an app that included the OmniFrameworks, but his apps were always down to a couple megs... so what am I missing?

Thanks,
F-bacher

Ghoser777 · Jun 10, 2002, 09:39 AM

Nevermind... I had debugging symbols on... DOH!

F-bacher

Ghoser777 · Jun 10, 2002, 10:36 PM

Just for my sanity, could someone without the OmniFrameworks installed (actually, I don't think it would matter either way as I have them installed in location different than most people) check to see if it works now? It's about a 700k download, but I think it works now.

Thanks!
F-bacher

deharlow · Jun 10, 2002, 10:54 PM

<blockquote>quote:<hr />Originally posted by Ghoser777:
Just for my sanity, could someone without the OmniFrameworks installed (actually, I don't think it would matter either way as I have them installed in location different than most people) check to see if it works now? It's about a 700k download, but I think it works now.

Thanks!
F-bacher<hr /></blockquote>Seems to work fine now, however the console prints assertions are on when accessing the prefs.

Daniel

Detrius · Jun 12, 2002, 11:36 PM

<blockquote>quote:<hr />Originally posted by Ghoser777:
Just for my sanity, could someone without the OmniFrameworks installed (actually, I don't think it would matter either way as I have them installed in location different than most people) check to see if it works now? It's about a 700k download, but I think it works now.

Thanks!
F-bacher<hr /></blockquote>Works here too. However, the tarball doesn't look to be arranged as you intended. In fact, I deleted everything in the tarball but the application and it still worked as expected. That's a good half-meg of stuff that doesn't need to be in that tarball. (BTW, I've never installed the OmniFrameworks.)