<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:lucida console, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div><span>I also have not had any of the slowness you describe, and I have run it on various mac machines. A hackintosh which has run lion and mavericks, and a mac book air that has run mountain lion and mavericks.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: 'lucida console', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: 'lucida console', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>I assume you must have installed the KK7DS python R10 runtime package in order to get it working as a pre-req step.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: 'lucida console', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span><br></span></div><div
style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: 'lucida console', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">What radios are you editing with chirp?</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: 'lucida console', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">How many channels do you have visible at once (i.e., how many are you viewing in memory range)?</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: 'lucida console', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: 'lucida console', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">-Jens</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: 'lucida console', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div> <div style="font-family: 'lucida console', sans-serif; font-size:
10pt;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <hr size="1"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Pete Mackie <pete@seaquest.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Discussion of CHIRP <chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Monday, May 19, 2014 10:11 AM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [chirp_users] Max OSX Woes<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container"><br>Joseph,<br clear="none"><br clear="none">I don’t know what to say regarding your woes of running CHIRP on Mac OS X. I run CHIP on Mac OS X 10.9.3 Mavericks on three computers without any of the problems you describe below. My MacBook Pro is over 5 years old. CHIRP is rock solid being most responsive on my MacBook Pro.<br
clear="none"><br clear="none">For security purposes, I only run Mac OS X 10.9.3 Mavericks on four family Macs. Why not upgrade from Mountain Lion it is a free O/S upgrade?<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Pete<br clear="none"><br clear="none">On May 19, 2014, at 6:41 AM, Joseph R. Erlewein <<a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:joe@n8cn.org" href="mailto:joe@n8cn.org">joe@n8cn.org</a>> wrote:<br clear="none"><br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> Hi there, name's Joe. Call N8CN<br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> I've got a Macbook Air running Mavericks, a Macbook Pro running Mountain Lion, and a Mac Mini running Mountain Lion.<br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> On all three units, the last version I tried (a while ago) was v0.3.1. It was terribly slow, and I had issues with tasks like.. resizing the window.<br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> I basically shelved it, and ended up using RT systems software inside a VirtualBox
Windows 7 instance, which proved faster. By like, a lot.<br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> I recently tried Chirp again (to read a chirp file for import to a website that lists area repeaters that I maintain) and was notified that 0.4.0 was available.<br clear="none">> I downloaded and installed it. I've tried it an all three platforms mentioned above.<br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> 1st issue: still very slow once you have a file with any data in it.<br clear="none">> 2nd issue: tasks like changing the size of the window are .. glitchy.<br clear="none">> 3rd issue: it crashes (repeatably) when I attempt to open a file. Not the opening-a-file part, the "browsing to where the file is located" part, usually before finding the file to even bother trying to open it.<br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> I guess my query is this:<br clear="none">> If
this is multi-platform software, are there test users / power-users using this under OSX with any success? If so, I'm wondering why my experiences have been so poor, as I know that with what I've already encountered, I wouldn't be able to use this software on OSX with any long-term success.. <br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> Or.. maybe I am missing a step? I've downloaded the zip, extracted the app, placed it where it needs to be, and run the application.<br clear="none">> There are no other "notes" on the site about other necessary tweaks -- but if there are other OSX users out there that did something different to achieve results that yield a workable platform -- is there something on the wiki that shows what you did and where you did it?<br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> I've opened Chirp under my Virtualbox Windows7 instance, and it appears to be MUCH more stable and reliable. No
noticeable "speed increase" over operations on the OSX version, but the glitchiness and crashiness seem to not exist.<br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> Just offering what I've experienced in the last few months.<br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> I'm not out to "flame" the software -- I think it's a great idea, and the effort is extremely remarkable!! -- and I'm not out to just "complain" -- and perhaps it's just lack of effort to dig deeper and/or understanding on my part -- I'm just communicating what I've run into (as an OSX user, and Windows-land escapee) in the past 4 to 6 months attempting to make use of Chirp on OSX<br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> Windows, no problem. seems to work fine.<br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> Honestly, out of lack of time, I haven't played with the linux versions despite having a lot of test
platforms I could use. In fact, now that I've written this, I think ima go try it. :) Anyone try it on a RPi yet? (i assume yes…)<br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> Best 73 and -- hey I really like the idea of this software :)<br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> _______________________________________________<br clear="none">> chirp_users mailing list<br clear="none">> <a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com" href="mailto:chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com">chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com</a><br clear="none">> <a shape="rect" href="http://intrepid.danplanet.com/mailman/listinfo/chirp_users" target="_blank">http://intrepid.danplanet.com/mailman/listinfo/chirp_users</a><div class="yqt3908259889" id="yqtfd73600"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">_______________________________________________<br clear="none">chirp_users mailing list<br
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