Re: how to warn users of wrong system
Re: how to warn users of wrong system
- Subject: Re: how to warn users of wrong system
- From: "Brad Peterson" <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 19:13:10 +0000
Hi Eric,
Some of the projects I've been involved with **clearly** state the OS ver at
the time of download (ex: "MyGreatSoftware for Mac OS 10.2.6") and yet we
still get the occasional OS 9.2 users writing in upset/confused that the
installer wouldn't work on their system. Really. :)
B
From: Eric Friedman <email@hidden>
To: matt neuburg <email@hidden>
CC: email@hidden
Subject: Re: how to warn users of wrong system
Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 09:16:05 -0700
Wouldn't it make more sense to say what the minimum supported OS is at
download time or on the box? Call me a nut, but that seems like the best
way to save users time and you bandwidth.
Eric
On Friday, October 10, 2003, at 08:50 AM, matt neuburg wrote:
My app is now Panther-only, so the first thing I want to do is
check the appkit version and put up a dialog warning if we can't
run on the user's system (and quit). I put such a check in my
main controller object's init, and it worked for a while, but now
it turns out that this is not soon enough: because of
incompatibilities in the nib file format, we crash before we even
reach this code if we try to start up on a pre-Panther system.
So I'm guessing I need to move the check into main.
My question is: if NSApplicationMain hasn't been called yet, how
can I put up a dialog? NSRunAlertPanel doesn't work at that
stage... Thx - m.
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