Hi all,
I’m trying to get joverseer to run on my iMac G5 running OS 10.5.7.
I cannot get the unix-launcher.sh to actually do anything. Double-clicking on it simply opens it up as a text file. I know I must be missing something simple. Any help would be appreciated.
Mike
Give up on unix-launcher.sh
You need to use Terminal to go to the directory where the joverseer file is and use the java command. For example on my computer it is:
cd ~/Documents/games/joverseer
java -Xmx384M -jar joverseer.jar
Thanks a bunch Seejaie! That worked like a charm. I have no idea what any of the code means…but that’s why I use a mac, turn it on and let it do the work.
I was a bit premature in my enthusiasm. I got Joverseer to open by double clicking on joverseer.jar. However after I entered the info for a new game into Joverseer, when I hit “ok” I got an error message saying "not enough memory. This is caused by running from joverseer.jar directly. Use joverseer.bat
Well I tried opening .bat after putting the code you gave me into Terminal, and .bat opened as a text file.
If there is anything else I’m missing that you can think of, please let me know.
Thnaks
I used the AppleScript utility to create a launcher application similar to unix-launcher.sh and joverseer.bat.
1: Open your AppleScript Editor.
2: Paste this into the editor:
do shell script "cd /Users/darrell/Applications/JOverseer; java -Xmx384M -jar joverseer.jar"
but change the file location to reflect the location of your JOverseer files.
3: Save the script (select “Application” as the file type).
Now you should be able to double-click on the application you just saved and launch just fine.
Of course, this entire process is doing the exact same thing that seejaie mentioned, you just don’t have to run terminal to do it. So if you’re getting errors with his method, you may very well get them again using this method, but it works great for me.
darrel ad seejaie,
Thanks do much for the responses. I think I’ve got it working now using the AppleScript editor and creating a launch application. Took me a while to figure out my user name, I thought I had a space in it on the system preferences, but apparently the space does not appear in the code, only in the interface. Got rid of the space and it launched JOverseer and accepted my new game instructions for game number and nation.
Now I have another issue. ( I’m such a noob at this stuff)I have my pdf and xml files in a folder named <turn 0>. When I used the import function as shown in the UserGuide, I got a number of error messages about “error: null” and it did not read the pdf file. I have attached a screen capture of the pop-up window from JOverseer.
Either of you, or any else for that matter, know what be happening?
Thanks in Advance,
Mike
Off the top, I’m assuming you set up the Game Type correctly to FA? And, it doesn’t appear to have seen the pdf - they’re both definitely in the same folder? To rule out a JO issue perse, if you’d like you can ship me your files and I’ll try it on my PC - this would rule out the Mac vs PC issue. I’m certainly not in game 49.
Brad Brunet
bbme
@
rogers.com
Thanks for checking it out on your pc Brad.
I’m still having the problem. Looking through the files in Joverseer I found that in the orderchecker folder that I have a .game extension that wants to open everything with the chess game software that came pre-loaded on the computer. I was wondering if that might be part of the problem? Darrell or seejaie, do you see this same file extension on your macs?
Thanks,
Mike
I’ve asked the developer to see if he has time to help you. Note, the OrderChecker files won’t run unless you try to check your orders, so I can’t imagine this being an issue with setting up a game ~ !
What I would recommend - load the program and set up your game - take screen shots at every single step and paste them into a document in order then forward. We have to confirm exactly what you’re doing to determine the nature of the problem.