yWriter for Mac OS?

[sleep_with_angels]

yWriter is a great program, and I give it the highest praise. It has
just one problem, though -- it doesn't work on the Mac OS. I recently
got an Apple laptop, and I quickly found out that yWriter doesn't
work. Is there a version that works for Mac, is a Mac version in the
works for yWriter5, are there any good emulators I can use? I just
need a way to use this on my computer. Any and all information is
welcomed!

[Simon Haynes]

sleep_with_angels wrote:

I'm afraid my software only works with Windows. I can't write programs for the Mac - I don't have the knowledge or tools to do so.

However, you can run my apps under Wine on OSX.

Cheers
Simon
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[Michelle Norton]

I've been playing around with the Darwine (Wine for OSX) and ywriter, but haven't been able to get it to work.  Still messing with it though.  This is just testing as my lovely pc runs ywriter just fine...I happen to be on a mac every once in while.  :).

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[Carly]

FYI if anyone is still trying to work this on a MacBook with Leopard.
I've worked through a few more of the features and really don't have
any issues, the most is that it's running as though I have a few too
many programs open and it has to think a second or two longer than in
Windows to do something. You do need to save constantly and close
things down by using the Application Name>Quit App way, you will
sometimes still get an error stating that it was closed improperly,
but so long as you save before you do that you're fine as far as I can
tell. Still playing with it so I'm no expert, but this looks like a
great way for us yWriter junkies to use it on our MacBooks without
having to buy Windows to load through BootCamp. By the way, the
slowness really isn't that slow, even if I had a copy of Windows to
install I wouldn't, I like having it in Leopard so that I can still
use my other programs for research and such.

Here are the web pages.

http://wiki.winehq.org/MacOSX/Installing

http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#head-8d8c06cf7fb33269c085a07531b61e5c730566e0

I used the thisismyinter.net to download and install. It worked
great, I do have some computer knowledge, but no programming so I was
afraid that I wouldn't be able to figure it out as their site
specifically states the program is mainly for developers and the
like. This site has a packaged program so basically all you do is
download DarWine, install it and then download your program and
install it. Even though they state they aren't truly and emulator, it
does kind of work that way. It's a bit slow, you have to know what
yWriter can do for it to appear to be worth it. If I didn't know how
much time I'd waste trying to organize and write in just a Word
Processor I may not have even bothered, but it does work. You just
have to let it pick it's destination folders. It still does
everything as though you are in Windows, but will install in the
correct places to run.

I can't guarantee all aspects of the program as I just got it all
downloaded and opened, but I have created a new project and am working
on copying and pasting all of my current work and organizing.

[Simon Haynes]

Carly wrote:

>
> FYI if anyone is still trying to work this on a MacBook with Leopard.
> I've worked through a few more of the features and really don't have
> any issues, the most is that it's running as though I have a few too
> many programs open and it has to think a second or two longer than in
> Windows to do something.

Thanks for posting the Mac instructions... hope lots of people benefit!