Mac Testers Needed!

[elias4444]

Thanks! I just uploaded some improvements today too (including some new ship models). I'm hoping to tackle the menus and GUIs soon too.

[miu]

Now it starts on my Mac too. Can't get it to do much though, everyhting's very slow, my HW is very old.

JoC, how/where did you find the log? Just curious...

elias4x4, where do you think the real problem was?

I've seen .jnlp files on the Mac with heap sizes specified that worked  :?

Also the move to Java 1.5 shouldn't be necessary :?: This will limit your Mac audience since only Tiger (10.4) may have Java 5 (if the user downloaded it) while different flavors of Java 1.4 would cover OS 10.3 and 10.2 as well...

[JoC]

JoC, how/where did you find the log? Just curious...

I am not at work until monday and it is there i have mac's but if i remember correctly u can turn on the log under application/utilites/java/java plugin setting...something like that.

[elias4444]

I'm not sure where the real problem was actually. I'm wondering if it has something to do with Java 5's 1.4 compiling mode. As soon as I told it to compile only to version 5, and I set the JNLP to reflect that, everything seemed to start working for people (so long as they had Java 5 installed). The odd thing is, some of my older games still work on Macs without a problem, however I may have compiled those with the actual java 1.4 rather than with Java 5.

[miu]

So you were compiling on Java 5 with 1.4 compatibility?

I tried this with JDK 1.4 for 1.3 compatible bytecode but for some reason it never really worked. I had to compile with JDK 1.3 to get that.

While Java 5 may be tempting, I guess the real world adoption is quite slow. Heck, we have customers who aren't on 1.4 yet! And Java 6 is supposed to ship this year!  :lol:

[elias4444]

Yeah, before release I'll force myself to reinstall java 1.4 and compile with that. Of course, release is probably still a ways off, so maybe by then everyone will have java 5 installed.  :lol: