I decided to use
Omnigraffle's update feature. Boy was that a mistake. It
upgraded itself to a newer version that wasn't free! I could
not believe that happened. The upgraded version only allows
you to edit up to 20 items per document, making the
application useless! I tried to go back to the old
pre-installed version. I inserted the Apple Software Restore
DVD and tried to perform an application restore.
Application restore
seems to create a whole lot of disk images on the desktop. The
first time I used restore it crashed, the second time it also
crashed, resulting in a Finder "Relaunch" after which the disk
images appeared on my desktop. I then successfully restored
the Omnigraffle application, but was left with a group of disk
images and a DVD that I could not eject! I tried everything,
right-clicking on items to eject them, pressing the keyboard's
eject button repeatedly, nothing worked. I even looked at
umount, but not being an expert with this tool I made no
progress there either. In desperation I switched the computer
off and held the mouse button to force ejcet the disc on
boot-up. This was a hint I found online which did not work. I
did not want to reboot the machine with a Software Restore
disc in the drive. I had no idea what would happen: would it
just try to restore the machine? When it did boot I as able to
press the keyboard's eject button to eject the DVD and no
machine restoration took place.
I did finish the port of my old
and simple GLUT application from Windows to MacOSX today.
I decided to make a copy of the included GLUT demo project
and hacked the copy to bits, replacing what was there with my
own code. I built the application, ran it, and it crashed. It
crashed because I neglected to copy the textures to the
directory where the application was being built. After copying
the required textures, the program ran like a dream and was
very fast, much faster than on my Thinkpad A31 and about the
same as my Thinkpad T40p.
Screenshot of the old and simple GLUT app.
While porting I decided to use
the Apple+/ key combination to comment a large section of
code, more than 500 lines, and the spinning beach ball
appeared. After waiting for a while I Force Quit Xcode and
restarted it.
I am not sure why I could not get my application running
with my own project created from scratch, but I am sure this
has to do with using the incorrect project type and some
missing frameworks. This is just something I need to learn
about.
Today I used the PB17 while having a coffee in the
Broadway food court to do some more "outside
testing" and more Xcode project editing. When it was time to
leave I shut the lid and put it back in the bag and went to
see a movie. When I came home and opened the Powerbook all was
fine. My partner switched to her user account and after a
while I switched back to my acount. As the switch completed
the machine locked up. I had to turn the computer off using
the power button, and then on again to be able to use it.
First time it crashed to this level that I can remember. Not
good.
