[Xastir] make problems on OSX

Keith Kaiser wa0tjt at gmail.com
Fri Feb 12 17:51:38 EST 2010


WOW! When you set your mind to something it gets done. The Law's gain is our loss.

I did as you said, downloaded and installed the new version. I made a backup of my maps but that was not needed. Mine are in /usr/local/share/xastir/maps and were not touched by the binary in anything but good ways.

The png snapshot now works great as you can see by looking here; http://www.kckaiserklan.com/snapshot.html

Thank you so much Jeremy, I'm now a happy Mac user. I have the most current version of Xastir (1.9.9) running, and all the little things I do with it function properly.



On Feb 12, 2010, at 4:01 PM, Jeremy McDermond wrote:

> On Feb 12, 2010, at 3:13 PM, Keith Kaiser wrote:
> 
>> That would be greatly appreciated Jeremy because I use that function a lot to create a web page via Automator.
> 
> I posted a new version on my web page.  Go ahead and try it out with this caveat that I realized the hard way:
> 
> BACK UP YOUR MAPS BEFORE YOU UPGRADE WITH THIS BINARY.  THE MAPS ARE STORED INSIDE OF THE APPLICATION, SO IF YOU DRAG AND REPLACE YOUR APP, YOU'LL BLOW AWAY ALL OF YOUR MAPS.  YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.
> 
> The maps really should go in /Library/Application Support/Xastir on the Mac, but unfortunatley, without an installer, there's nothing to create this directory on first run.  Usually a Mac app would gracefully fail without it, or create it on its own.  When I have more time I might look into making this happen for Xastir.  Also, the convert code I added is an ugly hack, and will only work if you have the app in /Applications.  I may look into doing the same thing as I did for datarootdir in the future.
> 
> This should at least get folks going.
> 
> Also, this is the latest 1.9.9 code out of CVS.
> 
> --
> Jeremy McDermond (NH6Z)
> Xenotropic Systems
> mcdermj at xenotropic.com
> 
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