Standalone won't launch under OSX

Alex Rice alex at mindlube.com
Fri Jan 23 00:19:28 EST 2004


On Jan 22, 2004, at 10:13 PM, Howard Bornstein wrote:

> I've had several reports of a variety of my OSX standalone apps not 
> launching. The reports say that the expanding rectangles appear when 
> the application starts to launch, but the app never actually launches. 
> These are apps that launch properly on most systems, but occasionally, 
> I get the report that the app won't launch.
>
> This has been reported in OS X 10.2.8 and 10.3. Does anyone have an 
> idea what would cause a standalone app to start to launch but then 
> never complete launching? Has anyone seen this or can you suggest what 
> might be going on?

When I've seen that it's because I built the standalone with the 
mainstack hidden. d'oh!

But seriously for your situation- I would ask for them to run it with 
Console.app open, and see if they get any messages or crash reports 
there.

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Alex Rice | Mindlube Software | http://mindlube.com



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