AW: Re: working visual.app bundle for intel macs

>Works fine for me.
>
>I downloaded the zip, which resulted in one app file (not two).
>Then I draged an .im on the app and it runs.
>
>-- Adrian
>
>On 22. Nov 2006, at 7:03 , Joachim Tuchel wrote:
>
>> Hi there,
>>
>> has anyone gotten this to work?
>> I seem not to understand exactly what to do. First, doing what  
>> Tudor describes produces a .app inside Contents/Resources/
>> visual.app, so there is an .app in a .app. Is this intended?
>> Even worse is that this doesn't work for me. The VW Icon bounces in  
>> the dock and disappears. X11 is not being started.
>>
>> Can anyone help me with this?
>>
>> Thanx
>>
>> Joachim
>>
>> Tudor Girba schrieb:
>>> Hi,
>>> Lukas Renggli has produced a MacOS X bundle of the vm (version  
>>> 7.4.1d) that works nicely for Intel Macs:
>>> http://www.iam.unibe.ch/~scg/Research/Moose/download/vw/visual-mac- 
>>> intel-741d.app.zip You can start it by dragging an image on it, or  
>>> by associating it as an application to open the image with. The  
>>> scripts inside also open X11 if it is not already open, so you do  
>>> not have to start it upfront.
>>> To upgrade the vm inside, you need to replace Contents/Resources/
>>> visual.app with the new version provided.
>

> Adrian
>
> thanks for answering.
> Where exactly did you copy the .app to? Did you simply replace the .app from the installation directory (that is, somewhere deep down /bin/preview...), or did you copy it to the location that Tudor mentioned.
>
> Needless to mention that I am a mac newbie... ;-)
>
>  
>> Works fine for me.
>>
>> I downloaded the zip, which resulted in one app file (not two).
>> Then I draged an .im on the app and it runs.
>>
>> -- Adrian
>>
>> On 22. Nov 2006, at 7:03 , Joachim Tuchel wrote:
>>
>>    
>>> Hi there,
>>>
>>> has anyone gotten this to work?
>>> I seem not to understand exactly what to do. First, doing what  
>>> Tudor describes produces a .app inside Contents/Resources/
>>> visual.app, so there is an .app in a .app. Is this intended?
>>> Even worse is that this doesn't work for me. The VW Icon bounces in  
>>> the dock and disappears. X11 is not being started.
>>>
>>> Can anyone help me with this?
>>>
>>> Thanx
>>>
>>> Joachim
>>>
>>> Tudor Girba schrieb:
>>>      
>>>> Hi,
>>>> Lukas Renggli has produced a MacOS X bundle of the vm (version  
>>>> 7.4.1d) that works nicely for Intel Macs:
>>>> http://www.iam.unibe.ch/~scg/Research/Moose/download/vw/visual-mac- 
>>>> intel-741d.app.zip You can start it by dragging an image on it, or  
>>>> by associating it as an application to open the image with. The  
>>>> scripts inside also open X11 if it is not already open, so you do  
>>>> not have to start it upfront.
>>>> To upgrade the vm inside, you need to replace Contents/Resources/
>>>> visual.app with the new version provided.
>>>>        
>
>
>  

> Adrian
>
> thanks for answering.
> Where exactly did you copy the .app to? Did you simply replace  
> the .app from the installation directory (that is, somewhere deep  
> down /bin/preview...), or did you copy it to the location that  
> Tudor mentioned.
>
> Needless to mention that I am a mac newbie... ;-)
>
>> Works fine for me.
>>
>> I downloaded the zip, which resulted in one app file (not two).
>> Then I draged an .im on the app and it runs.
>>
>> -- Adrian
>>
>> On 22. Nov 2006, at 7:03 , Joachim Tuchel wrote:
>>
>>> Hi there,
>>>
>>> has anyone gotten this to work?
>>> I seem not to understand exactly what to do. First, doing what
>>> Tudor describes produces a .app inside Contents/Resources/
>>> visual.app, so there is an .app in a .app. Is this intended?
>>> Even worse is that this doesn't work for me. The VW Icon bounces in
>>> the dock and disappears. X11 is not being started.
>>>
>>> Can anyone help me with this?
>>>
>>> Thanx
>>>
>>> Joachim
>>>
>>> Tudor Girba schrieb:
>>>> Hi,
>>>> Lukas Renggli has produced a MacOS X bundle of the vm (version
>>>> 7.4.1d) that works nicely for Intel Macs:
>>>> http://www.iam.unibe.ch/~scg/Research/Moose/download/vw/visual-mac-
>>>> intel-741d.app.zip You can start it by dragging an image on it, or
>>>> by associating it as an application to open the image with. The
>>>> scripts inside also open X11 if it is not already open, so you do
>>>> not have to start it upfront.
>>>> To upgrade the vm inside, you need to replace Contents/Resources/
>>>> visual.app with the new version provided.
>>

> I copied it to /Applications.
> Do not replace anything in the VW folder itself.
>
> -- Adrian
>
> On 22. Nov 2006, at 10:01 , [hidden email] wrote:
>
>> Adrian
>>
>> thanks for answering.
>> Where exactly did you copy the .app to? Did you simply replace  
>> the .app from the installation directory (that is, somewhere deep  
>> down /bin/preview...), or did you copy it to the location that  
>> Tudor mentioned.
>>
>> Needless to mention that I am a mac newbie... ;-)
>>
>>> Works fine for me.
>>>
>>> I downloaded the zip, which resulted in one app file (not two).
>>> Then I draged an .im on the app and it runs.
>>>
>>> -- Adrian
>>>
>>> On 22. Nov 2006, at 7:03 , Joachim Tuchel wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi there,
>>>>
>>>> has anyone gotten this to work?
>>>> I seem not to understand exactly what to do. First, doing what
>>>> Tudor describes produces a .app inside Contents/Resources/
>>>> visual.app, so there is an .app in a .app. Is this intended?
>>>> Even worse is that this doesn't work for me. The VW Icon bounces in
>>>> the dock and disappears. X11 is not being started.
>>>>
>>>> Can anyone help me with this?
>>>>
>>>> Thanx
>>>>
>>>> Joachim
>>>>
>>>> Tudor Girba schrieb:
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>> Lukas Renggli has produced a MacOS X bundle of the vm (version
>>>>> 7.4.1d) that works nicely for Intel Macs:
>>>>> http://www.iam.unibe.ch/~scg/Research/Moose/download/vw/visual- 
>>>>> mac-
>>>>> intel-741d.app.zip You can start it by dragging an image on it, or
>>>>> by associating it as an application to open the image with. The
>>>>> scripts inside also open X11 if it is not already open, so you do
>>>>> not have to start it upfront.
>>>>> To upgrade the vm inside, you need to replace Contents/Resources/
>>>>> visual.app with the new version provided.
>>>
>