Re: [SE|PY-macdev] Intel Mac Errors

[Dru K. <dru...@gm...>]

Alec,

I can't offer any advice on Intel Mac usage, as I'm running a regular old
G5, but I can tell you that SEPY on the Mac has been unfortunate at best.
I, too, loved it on the PC, but the kinds of bugs that exist in the Mac
version just render it very Beta-ish.  I doubt your errors are simply
because you are running on an Intel Mac.  The good news is that you have an
Intel Mac, and can get Parallels (
http://www.parallels.com/en/products/desktop/ ) and run the PC version of
SEPY in that, if you really want the best of both worlds.

SEPY has some wonderful features, and any other text editor is not going to
have parity with it (nor it with any other editor).  But if you'd be willing
to entertain another text editor for your ActionScript, I can heartily
recommend TextMate.  It's not free, but it's not expensive either.  It's a
Mac app through and through, so no "Python ports to the Mac" weirdness.  It
has built-in AS support and a lot of really great features that I find
myself depending on now.

Another option is Eclipse, which is a Java app but as far as those go, it's
very stable and runs smoothly on my Mac.  I don't use it a whole lot, but
there is an ActionScript plug in for it, as well, and it, too, has some
really really nice features.  I ran into a few bugs the last time I was
using it, but nothing like the SEPY bugs.  It's very usable and very well
thought out.

And if you bought Macromedia Studio, you always have Dreamweaver, which has
always been a better code editor than the Flash IDE.  I put myself to using
it at length once, and it's definitely a viable option.  My biggest
complaint would be the anemic code-folding, but as a program that you
probably don't have to pay to get, it's very usable.

Anyway, hope that helps, if you're interested in those apps just Google
them.

Dru


On 6/13/06, sep...@li...
>
> Hi,
>
> I have found the following errors with SEPY so far, and wanted to
> compare notes. I'm using an Intel Mac:
>
> This alert comes up from time to time but doesn't seem to have any
> effect:
>
> Assertion [useCount == 0] failed at /Users/kevino/oss/wx26/wxWidgets/
> contrib/src/stc/scintilla/src/Editor.cxx 216
>
> Most of the time when I load up I have to go to the preferences icon,
> and run the auto-completion routine in order for any menus to work or
> for the mac command button to work.
>
> Sometimes the mac command button stops working.
>
> Occassionally, apparently just after a file system access, SEPY
> closes inexplicably. This seems to happen most often when the mac
> command button has ceased working.
>
> Is this simply because I'm running an Intel mac? I'm new to macs and
> was mortified that SEPY doesn't run on it as it does on Windows! It
> was genuinely a strong motivating factor in migrating to mac.
>
> TIA. Alec.
>
> Alec McEachran
> al...@pt...
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