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Macintosh and Java #53

Open GoogleCodeExporter opened 9 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Purpose of this ticket is to provide better support for Macs and where this is 
not possible explain this on the download page.

A user reported the following:

I clicked on the link http://www.jpowder.org/JpowderApplet.html  in your paper 
in JAC and two empty windows on a page with "Demonstrating JpowderApplet" plus 
some usage instructions. Both applet windows came up with an error. I clicked 
for details as requested and a dialog box appeared saying

The application failed to run.
There was an error while executing the application

I clicked for more details and got:

Java Plug-in 1.6.0_22
Using JRE version 1.6.0_22-b04-307-10M3261 Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM

I'm running OSX 10.6.4 with Safari 5.0.2.

Further locally the following was observed on two Mac OsX 10.5.8 machines: 

1) On OsX 10.5.8 the support Java version earlier than 1.6!! Was amazingly 
means that the version of Java they support is from before Dec 2006 (see 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_version_history). Unfortunately, at least 
here at ISIS OsX 10.5.8 may be common and we currently only support Jpowder 
with JRE 1.6 or higher....     
2) Still using Firefox http://www.jpowder.org/JpowderApplet.html  correctly
3) Jpowder web-start downloads but does not run
2) and using Safari 5.0.2 the top applet on 
http://www.jpowder.org/JpowderApplet.html is displayed correctly but not the 
bottom applet which is blank

Original issue reported on code.google.com by anders.m...@stfc.ac.uk on 9 Dec 2010 at 8:09

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Tested Jpowder on a Mac 10.6.5 and displaying the Applets and running Jpowder 
worked fine. Only quirk was that when Jpowder was run got the message "Need Mac 
Operation system" was is a bit entertaining given that we WERE running on a 
Mac. Anyway Jpowder is probably looking for a specific version of Mac OsX, and 
of course this need to be updated

Original comment by anders.m...@stfc.ac.uk on 15 Dec 2010 at 1:24

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago

Original comment by anders.m...@stfc.ac.uk on 20 Jan 2011 at 7:27