I think you just need to get the SWT jar for the Mac and put it in brailleblaster/dist/lib I can't remember the URL offhand. It's too big to send as an attachment. John On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 02:22:05PM -0700, Alex Jurgensen wrote: > Hi Crhis, > > That fixed it. > > However, running "Java jar BrailleBlaster.jar" gives the following: > > Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: jar > Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: jar > at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:202) > at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) > at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:190) > at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:306) > at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:301) > at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:247) > Alexs-iMac:dist AlexJ$ > > I'm not sure why this is occuring. > > Regards, > Alex, > > > On 2011-07-12, at 8:44 AM, Chris von See wrote: > > > Extracting the BrailleBlaster zip file using Springy gives "permission > > denied" errors on each item in the archive. However, downloading the > > archive from "www.brailleblaster.org" and using the "sudo unzip > > brailleblaster-1.0.0.zip" command I was able to extract the archive, and > > upon doing so I noticed that the "brailleblaster" directory and all of its > > subdirectories and files have no permissions (that is, there are no > > user/group/world permission bits set). Using "sudo chmod -R" with > > appropriate permissions fixed the problem. > > > > I'm running Mac OS X Leopard. > > > > > > Cheers > > Chris > > > > On Jul 12, 2011, at 7:33 AM, Cheryl Ann Homiak wrote: > > > >> There is indeed a problem with the brailleblaster release on the Mac. When > >> I unzipped it in terminal using the zip command, it unzipped but crashed > >> terminal. I could then only remove the resulting brailleblaster directory > >> by using the sudo command. When I tried going into finder and using > >> Unarchiver, I heard "Unarchiver" but never found an open unarchiver window > >> and the brailleblaster zip file seems to now have disappeared from the > >> directory I had it in and no brailleblaster directory was completed. I am > >> using an Intel Mac mini running Snow Leopard and am not generally having > >> problems unpacking zip files either with unzip or Unarchiver. Not only do > >> I have the basic Unix system that comes with the Mac, but I also have > >> Macports and fink installed. To have a compiling problem is one thing but > >> there really shouldn't be a problem with just unzipping a zip file. > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> -- > >> Cheryl > >> > >> "Let the words of my mouth, > >> and the meditation of my heart, > >> be acceptable in thy sight, > >> O LORD, my strength and my Redeemer." > >> > >> (Psalm 19:14: Bible KJV) > >> > > > > > -- John J. Boyer; President, Chief Software Developer Abilitiessoft, Inc. http://www.abilitiessoft.com Madison, Wisconsin USA Developing software for people with disabilities