[developers] LKB OSX

[David Inman]

Thanks John, that works.

Unfortunately I am now back to my bigger problem of not being able to type
in my special character set, but at least I have another option for running
LUI!

On Wed, Aug 2, 2017 at 2:27 PM, John Carroll <J.A.Carroll at sussex.ac.uk>
wrote:

> Hi David,
>
> I think the problem is that you don’t have a directory /Users/David/tmp/ .
> If you create it, then I think all should be fine.
>
> I ran into this error myself recently when trying a fresh install on a new
> Mac, and I also noticed that according to the LKB instructions at
> http://moin.delph-in.net/LkbInstallation the tmp directory should
> be ~/Documents/tmp/ -- so in the latest version I’ve changed it to use the
> latter path and added a more informative error message in case it doesn’t
> exist. I’ll make this version available shortly and update all the
> Macintosh information on the DELPH-IN site.
>
> John
>
>
> On 2 Aug 2017, at 21:57, David Inman <davinman at uw.edu> wrote:
>
> I'm trying to use this on my Mac (I am wanting to get around the issue of
> not having aboriginal fonts on my Ubuntu partition), and am getting a
> curious error when I load grammars that work in Linux LKB:
>
> The path #P"/Users/David/tmp/Nuuchahnulth20170726224805UTC" does not
> exist.
> Error:
>
> Can't open CDB file /Users/David/tmp/Nuuchahnulth20170726224805UTC: is
> directory present and writable?
>
> Reading in lexical entry file lexicon
> While evaluating the form starting at line 54, column 0
>   of #P"/Users/David/Documents/School/Research/Nuuchahnulth/
> grammar/toy/nuk/lkb/script":
> While attempting to execute menu command Complete grammar...
> Error: lexicon is not open for writing
>
> On Tue, Jun 6, 2017 at 8:41 AM, John Carroll <J.A.Carroll at sussex.ac.uk>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Olga,
>>
>> I’ve been working on a new OSX version of the LKB. It uses CLIM graphics,
>> and although in principle it should work with LUI I haven’t managed to do
>> that yet.
>>
>> I wanted someone to test this version before making it public at
>> http://moin.delph-in.net/LkbMacintosh . If you could try it and make
>> sure it’s usable, then that would be great.
>>
>> I append my original email with instructions.
>>
>> John
>>
>>
>> On 6 Jun 2017, at 14:10, Olga Zamaraeva <olzama at uw.edu> wrote:
>>
>> I am pretty sure I heard someone saying recently that there was a new(?)
>> OSX version of LKB, but I this looks like it is not recent at all:
>>
>> http://moin.delph-in.net/LkbMacintosh
>>
>> Am I mistaken or just looking in a wrong place?
>>
>> Thanks!
>> Olga
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Begin forwarded message:
>>
>> From: John Carroll <J.A.Carroll at sussex.ac.uk>
>> Subject: Re: [developers] LKB with McCLIM graphics on Mac
>> Date: 15 January 2017 at 23:19:15 GMT
>> To: <developers at delph-in.net>
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Well, I finally have a version of the LKB for Macintosh that I’m happy
>> for people to try out. I believe everything in the core of the LKB is
>> functional, but LM and TSDB are not included (yet). I also haven’t tried
>> building it in SBCL or Linux, but I don’t foresee any problems. Some of my
>> changes will benefit the Allegro/CLIM version.
>>
>> To get started:
>>
>> Find a Macintosh running at least OSX 10.9
>> Download http://users.sussex.ac.uk/~johnca/lkb.macos_x86_64 [138MB]
>> Install the XQuartz X Window Server from https://www.xquartz.org
>> Run XQuartz, create a Terminal window, and execute lkb.macos_x86_64
>>
>> The Lkb Top window should appear almost immediately. After that, all
>> should be familiar.
>>
>> I have a list of remaining issues, including:
>>
>> 1. Postscript output from window Print buttons is only partially correct.
>> 2. There is no source recording.
>> 3. Not all characters can be entered into text fields (and these respond
>> only to the standard Emacs key bindings).
>>
>> There are a few cosmetic oddities involving menus, dialogs, and window
>> redrawing - but nothing serious I think. I attach a screenshot showing a
>> random selection of windows.
>>
>> Please give it a whirl and let me know of any problems.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> John
>>
>>
>>
>
>
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