Program won't open

[Mark Schonewille]

Shari,

I opened your app on MacOS X 10.3.8. On that Mac, no firewall or
virus protection has been installed (the firewall is on a
different Mac which is also the router). The testfile.txt is
created in te TestLaunch folder and the blackjackgold.txt in the
user's preferences folder. No problems here.

Mark


Shari wrote:
> Every so often I get a bug report that someone tried to launch the 
> program, and it wouldn't launch.  More of a blink while it flashed on 
> the dock or something, but never actually opened.
> 
> I finally took a moment to follow up on one of these reports, after he 
> told me he had a firewall and Norton's antivirus on his computer.
> 
> I created a blank program that does two things when it launches:  it 
> creates a text file in the Preferences folder, and it creates a text 
> file in the game folder.  That's it.
> 
> No code to conflict with anything, just testing to see if the program 
> creating a text file somewhere would prevent it from launching on some 
> computers.
> 
> Apparently so, because I uploaded the program and sure enough, he 
> couldn't launch it.
> 
> If anyone is interested, the program is at:
> 
> http://www.gypsyware.com/downloads/TestLaunch.sit
> 
> It's a standalone, as otherwise it wouldn't have been a proper test (and 
> he would have needed MC to open it :-)
> 
> I'm assuming that either the virus protection or the firewall doesn't 
> like programs to create files.  But the odd thing is, most programs do 
> create at least a Prefs file in the Prefs folder.
> 
> Any thoughts?
> 
> Shari

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