CamelBones

On Mar 5, 2006, at 2:06 AM, Thilo Planz wrote:

> I was wondering about how compatible PowerPC-Camelbones is with the  
> Rosetta emulator used on Intel Macs.
>
> I went to the local Apple Store the other day to try the Universal  
> Binary I made for PerlPad (did not work)

That's disappointing to hear that. I was told by a very reliable  
tester that the universal build of ShuX ran perfectly on a DTK Mac,  
although that was obviously a pre-release version of the OS. Maybe  
there were incompatible changes made to the final. I'll build a  
package with the latest tools, so we can see how that goes.

I'm saving my dimes to buy an Intel Mac, but it'll be a while. Maybe  
now that they're available for sale, I should take up a collection. ;-)

> Since we can build Universal Binaries now this is probably not a  
> really interesting topic, but does anyone have more insight about  
> if Rosetta should work for CamelBones applications?

I don't know of any reason why it wouldn't work. It wouldn't be very  
quick, naturally. I've heard reports that Rosetta on a low-end Intel  
Mac is roughly comparable to a 400-500Mhz G4. I'm still using a  
500Mhz G4, so I can tell you if those reports are correct, then  
CamelBones apps will be quite usable under Rosetta.

sherm--

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>> I went to the local Apple Store the other day to try the Universal  
>> Binary I made for PerlPad (did not work)
> 
> 
> That's disappointing to hear that.

This need not necessarily be a problem of CamelBones, it might have been
sloppy coding on my part.
I was standing in line on the Apple Store, so I unfortunately did not 
have time to dig into it.
The application started up fine, and did not crash or anything, so I 
would not worry to much.

It just failed to work properly because of a runtime exception, which 
showed up in the console as "NSButton does not respond to selector 
titleOfSelectedItem". The same error does not happen on PPC and the 
NSButton should actually have been an NSPopUpButton, I think.

> I'm saving my dimes to buy an Intel Mac, but it'll be a while. 

Yeah, me too. Until then, the problem will have to wait, especially now 
that Rosetta apparently does its job.


Thilo