Hi, Just to add to my last message, the "Exit" menu item is redundant on Mac OS X. There is a "Quit" menu item in the "Application" Menu. Regards, Alex, On 2011-07-12, at 3:00 PM, John J. Boyer wrote: > 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 > >