Running Visone on Mac

[Corman]

I have some students who are Mac users, using Visone in class.  Some of them are having problems getting it to run on Mac, even if they acknowledge running an app from an unknown developer.  I notice there is now a separate .dmg download for Mac only. I am not a Mac user so I don't know what a .dmg file is, and the other link says all OSs, so I had them use that.  Should they be using the .dmg download instead?  If so, can someone tell me how they should install it?

[Antonella Rosa Saponara]

I am a Mac user and I downloaded the last version of Visone from the web site e run the .dmg file and it works without problem! The installation is quick and easy!! If they have confidence with the Mac app installations, they should not have problems with it. 

Il giorno mar 4 set 2018 alle 16:40 Corman <dryhe...@gmail.com> ha scritto:

I have some students who are Mac users, using Visone in class.  Some of them are having problems getting it to run on Mac, even if they acknowledge running an app from an unknown developer.  I notice there is now a separate .dmg download for Mac only. I am not a Mac user so I don't know what a .dmg file is, and the other link says all OSs, so I had them use that.  Should they be using the .dmg download instead?  If so, can someone tell me how they should install it?

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[Felix Schönenberger]

Sorry for the delayed answer.

On 18-09-04 16:40, dryhe...@gmail.com wrote with possible deletions:

> I notice there is now a separate .dmg download for Mac only.
> I am not a Mac user so I don't know what a .dmg file is,

dmg is the software package format for Mac. This platform specific visone
build was around for some time. It provides convenience features like an
installing routine consistent to other Mac software. The 'all OS' build has
to be installed / started manually but otherwise is the same.

> Some of them are having problems getting it to run on Mac

Java 1.9 changed how things start a bit. Linux and Windows did cope very
well, Mac complained. Not surprising since for Mac we had this special
snowflake in place.

Take away from last years thread [1] was install Java 8 and everything
installs and runs fine. On Java 9 (and up, I guess) the installer crashes but
starting the jar via terminal works.

It is really just convenience (and Linux/Windows people seem to do fine
without special treatment). I am tempted to drop the dmg build in the next
release and maybe provide a short tutorial on how to install and provide some
system integration.

In any case, head over to the old thread [1] and see if the details match. If
not please report the Mac OS and Java version together with any 'show details'
listings and terminal output of `java -jar visone*.jar`.

[1] https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/visone-users/k5TebccN0oo