Re: Installation of screensaver fails
Re: Installation of screensaver fails
- Subject: Re: Installation of screensaver fails
- From: Nick Zitzmann <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2010 15:05:40 -0600
On Jul 15, 2010, at 2:56 AM, Gabriel Zachmann wrote:
> I have developed a screensaver that seems to work fine, except one customer has the following problem when he tries to install it via double-clicking:
>
> ". I'm on a macbook pro mid 2009 unibody, 3.06 ghz processor. I'm booting 10.6.4 in 32-bit kernel mode. Every time I double click the installer I get redirected to system prefs in the screen saver tab. At the bottom under "other" is your software, but it's grayed out and when I try to activate it I get a message saying to contact the developer for a newer version."
>
> I have developed my screensaver under 10.6.3, and I have compiled it for 10.6 and 10.5, Intel & PPC (if I have done everything correctly).
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> The same installation procedure does, of course, work just fine on my machine.
>
> Does anybody have an idea, why it might be greyed out in system preferences?
In order for a screen saver to be fully compatible with Snow Leopard, you must add an Intel 64 slice that supports GC. The reason is because both the screen saver engine and System Preferences run as Intel 64 apps on Snow Leopard if the user's Mac supports 64-bit addressing, and at least System Preferences also uses GC in the Intel 64 slice.
Nick Zitzmann
<http://www.chronosnet.com/>
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