Re: GUI on MacOS X !

[Ben Abbott]

> On Oct 2, 2017, at 12:27, John Swensen <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> 
>>> On Oct 2, 2017, at 8:07 AM, Ben Abbott <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> 
>>> On Oct 2, 2017, at 10:25 AM, Sebastian Schöps <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Dear Ben, 
>>> 
>>>> On 23.09.2017 Daniel J Sebald <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> That may not be a Mac OS X specific problem, just generally that Octave 
>>>> clean up at exit isn't quite correct yet for the Qt GUI.  There has been a 
>>>> change to objects now rather than static variables.  Perhaps those changes 
>>>> have enabled your GUI, but still need perfecting.  If you have an error 
>>>> message, create a bug report.
>>> 
>>> Daniel's patch at https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?50025 works for me. I 
>>> created a new macOS dmg build and uploaded it to
>>> 
>>> https://www.dropbox.com/s/lzjbykxkqxr402h/octave_gui_430_applebas.dmg?dl=0
>>> 
>>> It contains a recent snapshot and the patch (md5sum 
>>> ab7f41944d441d1b7c0068a3c7e18511). Please test!
>>> 
>>> Thanks and Bye
>>> Sebastian
>> 
>> Hi Sebastian,
>> 
>> Thanks for taking a look. I a big work crisis surprised me since my last 
>> email. I had hoped to work on this as well, but that will need to wait.
>> 
>> However, I do have time for testing.
>> 
>> The 4.3.0 version does not open for me. I'm on a borrowed Mac.  The bundle 
>> did verify and I went to System Preferences to bypass the security measures, 
>> but after that there was no response.
>> 
>> I am able to run the old 4.0.3 GUI version. 
>> 
>> Ben
> 
> I thought mine wasn’t working, but it took about 5 minutes to start up the 
> first time. Every time after that it started up almost instantaneously. 
> Probably the same font list building issue as older versions? 
> 
> I am on 10.12.6 (Sierra) on a Late-2013 MBP
> 
> John S

I’m away from my computer, I’ll give it another try later.

I’m using a late 2011 MBP running High Sierra.

Ben