Re: Mac WORA
On May 4, 2:21 am, Roedy Green <see_webs...@mindprod.com.invalid>
wrote:
I wrote an Applet the Canadian Tax Calculator athttp://mindprod.com/applet=
/canadiantax.html run as Applethttp://mindprod.com/products1.html#CANADIAN=
TAXdownload
I got email from a Mac user this display is scrambled when they run it
on a Mac with Safari.
Verified on 10.5, Safari 3.0.4, up-to-date Java 1.5.0.
Yet when they run it standalone from a jar, it works fine.
Questions:
1. would anyone with a Mac please have a look at it and tell me if
they can see what the trouble is.
2. What would I tell to Mac people to explain how to unzip, and
execute a jar?
If you mean "the JAR is inside a ZIP file":
- download the ZIP. Safari will, by default, unzip it for you; if it
doesn't, the ZIP file will be in ~/Downloads (10.5) or on the Desktop
(10.4 and earlier).
- double-click on the JAR to run it.
If you mean "the JAR itself needs to be unpacked":
- fix your build :)
- download the JAR. Safari will, by default, place it in the same
locations mentioned above.
- open Terminal.app (/Applications/Utilities/Terminal).
- cd ~/Downloads # for 10.5
or cd ~/Desktop # for earlier releases
- jar xf [name of JAR file]
Do they even have a command line?
The shell on a Mac is bash (in 10.4 and later releases) or tcsh (in
10.0 through 10.3); all of the usual shell-isms and unix-isms are
there. Relying on GNU quirks (like expecting 'rm' or 'cd' to accept
options at the end of the line) is unwise; it often won't work as the
core utilities are derived from the parent BSD code.
-o