<html><head><style> body {height: 100%; color:#000000; font-size:12pt; font-family:Arial;}</style></head><body>Hi Gord,<br><br><span>This is Bob, W3HXW, and I've been reading your posts along with Dan's as you work at trying to get D-Rats working with an iMac and OSX.</span><br><br><span>I have an iMac and also a laptop with Windows with D-Rats on it.</span><br><br><span>Have you two been sufficiently successful at mating D-Rats with OSX so that you'd recommend my downloading D-Rats and using it to run my transceiver on 2 meters or would you recommend simply staying with Windows?</span><br><br>Thanks in advance for your thoughts,<br><br><span>Bob</span><br><br>----- Original Message -----<br>From: Gord & Maureen Dick <g5852651@telus.net><br>To: Discussion of D-RATS <drats_users@intrepid.danplanet.com><br>Sent: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 02:36:03 -0000 (UTC)<br>Subject: Re: [drats_users] New Daily Build<br><br>Hi Dan:<br>I was originally using the File>Quit. I appreciate you have spent a lot of time on this with me in<br>mind, since I don't see others posting with the same issues.<br>For the time being I have a windows laptop that DRATS is working fine on so why don't we call it<br>a day. I prefer to use my mac desktop, but it's no big deal if I have to use my laptop, just not<br>quit as convient.<br>Thanks for the efforts, it was very appreciated.<br>Gord - VE7FKY<br><br><br>On 2012-02-28, at 6:23 PM, Dan Smith wrote:<br><br>>> Well, I met with partial success. By closing it with the red x <br>>> button it did reopen DRATS a couple of times with no problems but <br>>> then it went back to it's old way and wouldn't reopen.<br>> <br>> What about going to File->Quit?<br>> <br>> I have spent way too much time trying to get the app menu to properly<br>> integrate and behave as it should. MacOS is a third class platform for<br>> GTK and it shows. I'm not sure why you're seeing this weird behavior of<br>> not being able to restart D-RATS sometimes and nobody else is.<br>> <br>> If the majority of the MacOS users want me to go back to the X11<br>> approach, I can consider that, although I'm honestly not sure which is<br>> worse.<br>> <br>>> I had another email come in while I was doing the test and when it<br>>> finished downloading the email, Python suddenly quite again.<br>> <br>> I'm not able to reproduce this or the crash related to weather beacons<br>> locally. I will continue to pursue these items as time permits, but with<br>> only a few MacOS users, it's hard to justify spending much time on it.<br>> <br>> Hopefully it goes without saying, but if there are any MacOS programmers<br>> in the crowd that want to step in and help with these issues, please<br>> stand up.<br>> <br>> -- <br>> Dan Smith<br>> www.danplanet.com<br>> KK7DS<br>> <br>> _______________________________________________<br>> drats_users mailing list<br>> drats_users@intrepid.danplanet.com<br>> http://intrepid.danplanet.com/mailman/listinfo/drats_users<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>drats_users mailing list<br>drats_users@intrepid.danplanet.com<br>http://intrepid.danplanet.com/mailman/listinfo/drats_users<br></body></html>