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Re: Writing Applications for Mac OS X

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  • Subject: [mg41047] Re: [mg41022] Writing Applications for Mac OS X
  • From: Selwyn Hollis <selwynh at earthlink.net>
  • Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 04:21:58 -0400 (EDT)
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David,

AddOns isn't hidden in OS X. There's one in the Mathematica folder 
within ~/Library and another inside the Mathematica "package" (that's 
OS X lingo). To get to it, one can control/right-click the Mathematica 
application icon and select "Show Package Contents."

Regards,

-----
Selwyn Hollis
http://www.math.armstrong.edu/faculty/hollis

On Tuesday, April 29, 2003, at 05:24  AM, David Park wrote:

> I have written an application that involves packages, a style sheet, a
> palette, and a sets of notebooks grouped in Chapters. I used the 
> following
> file structure, which I put in my AddOns\Applications folder on a 
> Windows
> system.
>
> ComplexAnalysis\
> 	package1.nb
> 	package1.m
> 	package2.nb
> 	package2.m
> 	Chapter 1\
> 		notebook1.nb
> 		notebook2.nb
> 	FrontEnd\
> 		Palettes\ComplexAnalysisPalette.nb
> 		StyleSheets\ComplexAnalysisStyle/nb
>
> This works find for me. The notebooks have access to the packages and 
> the
> style sheet, and the palette is in the Palettes menu. I zipped it all 
> up and
> sent it to a friend working with Mac OS 9. It worked fine for him. I 
> also
> sent it to another friend who is working with Mac OS X. He said
>
> "OK, but I don't know how to open the notebook from there. AddOns is
> *hidden* in OS X, and ComplexAnalysis doesn't show up in the
> Mathematica Index. That's why I'm running it from the extra copy on my
> desktop, which is not a problem so far."
>
> Apparently he can't get at the notebooks. What is the proper method to
> assemble an "application" so it can be run on Mac OS X?
>
> David Park
> djmp at earthlink.net
> http://home.earthlink.net/~djmp/
>
>
>



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