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[Dpgui-user] Port Authority 1.0 on Mac OS X 10.3.9 (was (no subject) )
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From: Paul R. <red...@ma...> - 2006-10-14 14:49:12
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Hello Kevin, I guess that your guess was correct. I had done a DarwinPorts selfupdate, which presumably broke the link between my original version of DarwinPorts and Port Authority 0.7. I took up your suggestion and downloaded the source code for Port Authority 1.0, which I placed in /usr/local/src. Having read the install instructions, I looked around my machine to see whether Wish8.4 was installed. Not having found any version of Wish installed on my machine, I searched round on the internet, discovered downloaded and installed the 'TclTK Aqua Batteries Included' version. On my first attempt at running the command '/path/to/wish /path/to/portauthority.tcl', I then discovered that the installation required the packages Tablelist_tile, balloon, tkhelpbrowser_tile and fsdialog. Googling for tkhelpbrowser_tile brought me to http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=165637, a site I am sure that you are familiar with. I appreciated that these were packages designed to support widgets in OS X 10.4, but suspected that it would probably be easier to let the program look for what it was expecting, rather than hack the source code to remove all references to these packages. The one package I could not find anywhere was fsdialog. So in the end, I just commented out the line "package require fsdialog". Running the command '/path/to/wish /path/to/portauthority.tcl' with this line commented out did successfully launch Port Authority. To be precise, it launched Wish. 'Wish', rather than 'Port Authority' appears in the Finder Menu Bar and the 'Wish' icon appears in the Dock. However, all the drop-down menus and all the other drop-down menu headings are for Port Authority. Even the 'About' menu is 'About Port Authority'. All the menus work, apart from the help file. Selecting 'Port Authority Help' launches a 'Help' window displaying an icon of a closed book, entitled 'User Help'. The book does not open when you click on it. Cmd+I does not work. Typing Cmd+I produces a window with the following output: invalid command name "ShowInformation" invalid command name "ShowInformation" while executing "ShowInformation" (command bound to event) However , selecting 'Information>Port Information', or clicking on the 'Info' icon does display all the information on the selected port. The information line displayed does not wrap within the info pane (cf. post by Clytie Siddall <clytie@ri...> 2005-12-30 02:29 - 'Info pane'). Cmd+A is linked to two different menus, 'OverView>View All Ports' and 'DarwinPorts>Add Port Descriptions'. Typing 'Cmd+A' however appears to invoke the 'Installations>Upgrade all Installed Ports' command The drop down list of categories is a bit temperamental. It is possible to select a category to view on first launch, but not thereafter. Hovering the mouse over the category list window a second time pops up an info box 'Select a category of port to view', and the drop-down window flickers behind this. However, if you know what category you are looking for, it is possible to select 'View by Category' and then type into the box the name of the category you wish to view. I put the command '/path/to/wish /path/to/portauthority.tcl' into an executable file, and placed this in the /Applications folder. Double clicking on this launches Terminal and 'Wish/Port Authority' runs from there. Terminal must not be running before double-clicking on the exec. file, or 'Wish/P A' won't load. To test the system, I upgraded my copy of autoconf to 2.60, and then installed ruby. A system beep was sounded when installation completed. So to conclude, Port Authority 1.0 can run under Mac OS X 10.3.9. It is a bit clunky - but then what do you want from free? Hope this report helps anyone else who would like to run Port Authority on versions of Mac OS X lower than 10.4. Best wishes Paul Redfern On 5 Oct 2006, at 6:25 pm, Kevin Walzer wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > At some point in the past year, DarwinPorts changed the way it output a > list of available ports, and I had to re-work some of Port Authority's > internals to keep up. My guess is that you are using a recent version > of > MacPorts/DarwinPorts that is incompatible with the older version of > Port > Authority. > > The only thing I can suggest is to grab the source code of the last > free > version of Port Authority from the SF site and see if you can get it to > build. More recent versions of Port Authority are shareware and I don't > support the open-source version anymore. > > Paul Redfern wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I can no longer get the list of available ports in the top window. I >> enclose a screen grab to illustrate. Does anyone have any suggestions >> as >> to why this should be? >> >> Paul >> running Mac OS 10.3.9 on PowerBook G4 1.5GHz, I am using Tcl/Tk >> 8.4.12, >> and using Port Authority 0.7 (the last version compatible with OS X >> 10.3.9) >> >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> -- >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> --- >> Take Surveys. Earn Cash. 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