Mac newbie with trouble

GeoTrail · Post by **GeoTrail** » Sat Mar 14, 2009 3:20 am

I bought me a MacBook not long ago, and offcourse I couldn't wait to fire up PB on it. Everything works great, at first. I installed the latest devtools from Apple, and it works great when I hit F5 to compile and run. Just a simple test program using one variable and an inputrequester.

But when I compile the program to the harddisk and run it, a terminal window is opened and I can't access the test program, it's opened behind the terminal. What am I doing wrong here? don't want that darn terminal to popup

WilliamL · Post by **WilliamL** » Sat Mar 14, 2009 3:30 am

your program must end with .app to run in the Mac GUI

e.g. MyProgram.app

http://www.purebasic.fr/english/viewtopic.php?t=35745

GeoTrail · Post by **GeoTrail** » Sat Mar 14, 2009 3:40 am

Nice one, works great.
Thanks for the tip William

Btw, what kind of files should be used as program icons?
I tried with a .ico file I used previously but I can only see the standard .App icon.

Oh, and where is the Visual Designer?

WilliamL · Post by **WilliamL** » Sat Mar 14, 2009 3:43 am

.icns for icons

see Freak/my thread on icons (etc.)

http://www.purebasic.fr/english/viewtopic.php?t=34231

no Visual Designer on the Mac

GeoTrail · Post by **GeoTrail** » Sat Mar 14, 2009 3:48 am

Thanks for the link William.
Time to get reading

jack · Post by **jack** » Sat Mar 14, 2009 11:33 pm

GeoTrail, as for icons, you can also change an application icon by pasting an image, do: getinfo of the app and select the icon on the top-left corner, then paste whatever image you want.