Notes:
There's a new OSX version of the beta now available from here.
This requires OSX version 10.6 (Snow Leopard) or 10.7 (Lion). I haven't even tested it yet on 10.6 so I'm not even really sure it runs ok there yet or not. I'm pretty sure it will not run on 10.5 though (which is due to limits in Apple's newest development tools).
I have only tested this on my machine so I'm not even really sure that it works at all on anyone else's machine, but I figured that it would be good to release it and get it tested some!
There are still several things that I have left to do like getting the Mac file dialog instead of the retro Windows 95-ish one (just ignore that for the time being) and probably setting up some way from the MoI file menu to open up a second MoI window which at the moment there is no way to do.
But basically everything should be running. It could be possible that a few remaining things may need to be tweaked in order to run properly, let me know if you find any particular command or feature that does not seem to work at all.
I'm still not entirely sure if this overall approach is going to work even now, so please let me know if things are running ok or if you see a lot of problems.
Notes:
There is a new Mac OSX beta v2.5 build available here.
This is a public beta release and does not require a license key. This beta expires on Jun-19-2012.
There are various improvements and fixes from the previous beta, including:
- Native OSX file open and save dialogs.
- Proper OSX file names and file paths shown anywhere a file name is displayed.
- Copy and Paste working now.
- OSX style shortcut keys using the Cmd key are set up by default.
- 3D viewport graphics display should work now even on machines with old video cards.
- You can now open multiple windows by using the "MoI > New Window" from the top app menu.
There are still some known bugs that I am working on, like:
- Cmd+Q does not work for quitting
- Drag/drop on to the MoI icon works for one file but not the second file
- Display flickers when switching viewports or resizing the main window.
Notes:
There is a new Mac OSX beta build available here.
This is a public beta release and does not require a license key. This beta expires on Aug-22-2012.
Updated stuff and bug fixes:
- Faster start up and faster shutdown.
- Added Quit menu item to top menu and also Cmd+Q for quitting works now.
- Support for 3Dconnexion / Space Navigator type devices now working.
- Flicker when switching view modes (like from split view to maximized 3D view, etc.. using the tab control in the bottom toolbar) should be eliminated now.
- Screen redraw when resizing the main window should not be quite so gross now.
- Fixed drag/drop behavior, previously only the first drop onto the app icon would work and further drops would be ignored and also dropping other file types than 3DM like IGES files for example would not work. This should all be fixed now.
- Uses OSX native color picker for setting color values.
- Copy/Paste of geometry to and from Rhino OSX version now supported - both MoI and Rhino must be running at the same time for this to work.
- Fixed a bug where accented characters in file paths would prevent files from being read when system locale was set to some specific locations like Guatemala.
- Fixed a bug where a dialog box would occasionally pop up when interrupting some kinds of calculations, like when adjusting sliders in the Blend command.
- Zoomed window size now remembered for next launch - in the previous version if you closed MoI with the window zoomed to max size, it would not remember that size on next launch but that should be fixed now.
Known bugs in this release:
- There is one major new bug introduced which is an occasional crash or lockup just immediately at application launch time. I've been able to track this down to a bug in one of the support libraries and it's just recently been fixed upstream so I'm expecting the fix to trickle down into the particular stuff that MoI uses pretty soon. In the meantime if you see a crash or lockup just immediately at launch just ignore that and relaunch.
- Drag/drop on to the MoI icon works for one file but not the second file
- Display flickers when switching viewports or resizing the main window.
Remaining stuff that I'm still working on:
- ReadPointsFromFile and WritePointsToFile scripts do not work – as far as I know these are the only 2 scripts that do not work on the OSX version and I will be adding some new script methods to make those work. I think once that happens the OSX version will hit 100% feature parity with the Windows version.
- Cmd+V / Cmd+C does not work for copy/pasting text into text fields, but using the Ctrl key does work. I will be fixing this up.
- Finish the current Deform commands, add icons for Twist and Flow.
Those 3 things and getting a fix for the sporadic startup crash are the only things remaining on my list of stuff for wrapping up the OSX 2.5 release. Please let me know if I'm missing anything or if you see any other problems than those.
Notes:
There is a new Mac OSX beta build available here.
This is a public beta release and does not require a license key. This beta expires on Aug-22-2012.
As far as I know, this build now hits 100% feature parity with the Windows version!
The only thing really left to do is to finish up the Deform commands that were new for v3 with some icons and some documentation for them.
Updated stuff and bug fixes:
- Sporadic crash on startup should be fixed now.
- Pointer offset bug with Wacom tablets should be fixed.
- Updated 3Dconnexion / SpaceNavigator support to avoid stacking up of movement events.
- Using Cmd key for cut/copy/paste/select all in text control fields (Cmd+C, Cmd+V, for pasting in numeric coordinates for example) should work now.
- Fixed bug when color picker dialog was launched from another dialog.
- Eliminated screen flicker when showing the scene browser pane.
- Implemented a script interface for plug-ins to read text files, which enables an updated version of the ImportPointFile and SavePointFile scripts to work now on OSX.
Notes:
There is a new Mac OSX beta build available here.
This is a "release candidate" version, it will become the full release 2.5 version soon unless there are any new major problems reported, so please give it a test!
Updated stuff and bug fixes:
- New icons for Flow and Twist deform commands.
- Fixed a bug in deformation commands that produced messed up results when deforming surfaces with poles in them like spheres.
- Shows a license agreement dialog the first time that it is launched.
- Updated copy/paste to Rhino to adapt to new Rhino executable name.
- Fixed a bug where MoI would not launch properly on case-sensitive HFS+ file systems.
So at the moment my "todo" list for OSX-specific stuff is all cleared out! So that means that the final release for the MoI OSX version is right around the corner – please let me know if you see any issues that should hold up the release!