[LON-CAPA-dev] Re: [LON-CAPA-users] Mac and JME

[Jim Maxka]

Hi Mark Gerd and Guy -- Shawn uses a mac.  I passed your posts by him 
and he replied:  He has tested out both jmol and jme with OS X. We had 
problems with system 9, 8.5 worked if I remember correctly.
Here is his reply:
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 >--Jim
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 >10.4 adds java 1.5 (you have to download from the apple downloads  
page http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/apple/ 
 >java2se50release1.html) once installed you can then specify it as the  
default java used or it will use 1.4.2 (which is installed by >default  
on 10.4) /Applications/Utilities/Java/J2SE 5.0/Java Pref. allows you  do 
to this. It is suppose to just automatically switch to >1.5 if the  app 
uses it, but I switched mine to 1.5 and sites such as peoplesoft  work a 
lot better. Im not sure though about 10.3 with >java 1.3 and  1.4.2 
installed if they included a way to do this. Im sure a command  line way 
is possible. Also I found a way to install >1.5 on 10.3.
 >http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php? 
story=2005043002313964&query=java+1.5
 >It worked fine for me when I tried it.
 >shawn--



Guy Albertelli II wrote:

>Hi Mark, Gerd,
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>>>>>I was working on a mac just a few minutes ago under safari and
>>>>>netscape.
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>>>>>JME was not loading the answer box when submitted.
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>Can you test your mac on this page:
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>http://developer.apple.com/internet/safari/samples/ColorBlockApplet.html
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>>Right. I have just installed 10.4 (Tiger), I'll check tomorrow if  
>>stuff is working now.
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>The 10.4 mac in the LITE Lab for some reason still has both 1.3.1 and
>1.4.2 installed.
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>And the browsers pickup the 1.3.1 one.
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