Thursday, May 1, 2014

I need help with Snow Leopard!

Thanks, gang! I think I've got this one licked now. I won't need any more reports like these.

I have a Snow Leopard (that is, Mac OS X 10.6.8) machine which I use for testing Solitaire Till Dawn. The latest release, b15, works fine on that machine. But I have email from a number of you saying that it is not working on your own Snow Leopard machines.

If you have Snow Leopard, I would be very grateful if you would do these things for me:

1. Make sure you have the b15 version. (If not, download it here.)
2. Try to run it; see whether it works or not.
3. Select About This Mac from the Apple menu, and look at the line labeled "Processor".
4. Send me a message: tell what your processor is, and whether or not Solitaire Till Dawn works on that machine.

You don't have to be in Solitaire Till Dawn when you select About This Mac. As an example, on my own machine the About This Mac display says:

Processor   2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo

The usual failure behavior seems to be that two windows open instead of just one. One of them is blank; the other shows a game layout. Both windows show the beta disclaimer. Neither window allows you to play solitaire. If you are seeing a different kind of failure, please also tell me about that.

I'd really like to get this fixed. But it's hard to fix a bug if it won't actually fail when I'm watching it; and on my machine, it doesn't fail. So any information you can send will be useful.

Thanks!

4 comments:

  1. This'll drive you nuts - I have the exact same processor as you have. With B15 I get the exact problem of two non-functioning windows.

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  2. Meant to add that last working Beta I closed with Grandma's Game and that's what B15 tries to open. Also, I have STD 1.5.1 on the machine. Conflict?

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  3. 5/1/14 10:23:39 PM Solitaire Till Dawn[14684] SolitaireDocument initWithType:error:outError:
    5/1/14 10:23:39 PM Solitaire Till Dawn[14684] SolitaireDocument init
    5/1/14 10:23:39 PM Solitaire Till Dawn[14684] SolitaireDocument makeWindowControllers
    5/1/14 10:23:41 PM Solitaire Till Dawn[14684] attempting to modify layer that is being finalized - 0x1143bca90
    5/1/14 10:23:41 PM Solitaire Till Dawn[14684] SolitaireDocument initWithType:error:outError:
    5/1/14 10:23:41 PM Solitaire Till Dawn[14684] SolitaireDocument init
    5/1/14 10:23:41 PM Solitaire Till Dawn[14684] SolitaireDocument makeWindowControllers
    5/1/14 10:23:55 PM Solitaire Till Dawn[14684] SolitaireDocument newGame:
    5/1/14 10:23:56 PM Solitaire Till Dawn[14684] *** __NSAutoreleaseNoPool(): Object 0x100500200 of class NSCFNumber autoreleased with no pool in place - just leaking

    Greek to me. Last entry repeats endlessly.

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