BMax IDE - keeps crashing
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| OK.. so I finally decided to get me mac to find out what all the fuss is about. I have installed the latest Max IDE 1.3 and Im not impressed. It keeps crashing at all sort of different times.. resulting in me losing whatever I had coded from the last save. I cant really report a bug as I have yet to discover what causes the crash. I have had it crash while changing the ide preferences, copy/pasting, while moving around the code, I even had it crash while i wasnt doing anything.. i was surfing in safari. Am I the only one getting this ?.. Have I installed something wrong ?.. or is 1.3 experimental ? I moved from Linux thinking the mac version will be better supported and more stable but Im starting to think the windows version is the only way to go. |
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| Doh - i never had that ... What Version of Mac OS X do you have? Do you have the latest Developer Tools ? PPC or Intel ? |
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| Its Intel OS X 10.5.4 By developer tools do you mean the XCode I installed from the CD ? I may sound like a dim question but I really am very new to Mac's. How do I find out whether I have the latest version of the dev tools ? Its reassuring that it seems to be something I have done wrong that is causing these crashes.. I just need to figure out what it is. thanx |
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| start XCode. Go to XCode -> About XCode My Version is 3.1 If you have updated the XCode Tools, try to download BltzMax 1.30 again and rebuild all Modules. Hope that helps. |
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| I'm running 10.5.4 and BlitzMax IDE is fine here. However, contratry to popular opinion, I did find that software stability could only be achieved by re-installing 10.5 fresh, and not doing an upgrade from 10.4, so if you went by that route, its probably wise to reformat and install 10.5 However, if its a new installation of 10.5 (which is most likely the case), I would recommend doing the two things that Mac people like to keep quoting : Repair permissions and do a verify of the hard drive. Failing that, if you have AppleCare, use the TechTools to do a full scan of everything (memory, hardware etc etc). If not, or after that, you need to find out whether its dependent on the user profile - so create a new user and see if BlitzMax works in that. Personally, I do find program stability is lacking in most Mac software, unfortunately - when I initially got my Mac, and I tried one of the standard pieces of software, it crashed straight away... |
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| sorry about the slow response.. things are bit bit hectic at the moment and havent had a chance to do anything. right.. so I have XCode 3.1 installed.. I did also install the iPhone SDK as well though. I have done a rebuild of all modules.. so Ill see if it is any more stable. then Ill try the repair permissions and disk verify thing. Thanks for all the suggestions cheers |
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| mmmh, definately something is odd with your system I would say. I got my IMac 2 weeks ago and MaxIDE is running just fine. Btw, you just need to install the Iphone SDK, it comes with XCode 3.1 as well. |
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| Hi Mike, Yeah.. I had already installed XCode as soon as I got the machine.. it was only a week later when I decided to get the iPhone SDK. Anyway... fingers crossed it all seems to be fine now. I re-downloaded BMax and rebuilt all modules. Thanks all for the advice. |
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