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arielm
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need some help from MAC users
« on: Oct 22nd, 2003, 11:56am » |
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i'm about to use a mac for working with java and quicktime together...
my questions are:
- which system is best suited? (9.1, 9.2, 10, 10.2)
- with wich version of java?
- and which version of quicktime? (i guess 6.3)
- is qt for java preinstalled?
finally, i don't have access to any mac yet, but one question is torturing my unexperienced-mac-user mind: if i want to launch a java app on mac, is there something similar to the pc "cmd" command-line window?
10-x!
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Ariel Malka | www.chronotext.org
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Martin
    
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Re: need some help from MAC users
« Reply #1 on: Oct 22nd, 2003, 1:18pm » |
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- which system is best suited? (9.1, 9.2, 10, 10.2)
OS X is nice. Unix base provides stability.
- with wich version of java?
Java 2 for Mac?
- and which version of quicktime? (i guess 6.3)
Yeah...
- is qt for java preinstalled?
Dunno. 
- if i want to launch a java app on mac, is there
something similar to the pc "cmd" command-line
window?
This is one thing I love about OS X. It has a console. If you love Unix, you'll love this OS. 
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arielm
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Re: need some help from MAC users
« Reply #2 on: Oct 22nd, 2003, 3:30pm » |
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thanks martin, (can't wait to open a unix console on mac )
regarding java, is there a difference between OSX 10 and 10.2?
also in term of java version, which one is recommanded (1.3, 1.4.1, etc.)?
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Ariel Malka | www.chronotext.org
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Martin
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Re: need some help from MAC users
« Reply #3 on: Oct 22nd, 2003, 5:02pm » |
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10 is the first release of OS X. 10.2 is Jaguar. But you might wanna wait for 10.3 named Panther.
Apple's Java site encourages 1.4.1. However, it requires OS X v10.2.6 or later.
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fry
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Re: need some help from MAC users
« Reply #5 on: Oct 22nd, 2003, 5:21pm » |
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for osx, don't bother with anything early than 10.2.x, they're (10.0.x, and 10.1.x) near-worthless.
quicktime for java is installed by default so long as you're using quicktime 6.3. the recent 6.4 upgrade removes it on 10.2.x, but it's still available on 10.3 which is only becoming officially available this week.
macos9 is also reasonably usable with qtjava, but we haven't released an os9 version of p5 for a good while, and i'm starting to doubt whether we'll ever go back to developing it.. qtjava is installed by default about half the time on os9.
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mohn
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Re: need some help from MAC users
« Reply #7 on: Oct 23rd, 2003, 3:11am » |
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for osx 10.2.8:
i would say java 1.3.1
java 1.4.1 can be an adventure and i have found your mileage may vary.
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