Re: [Kicad-developers] Mac questions: fast build and BRIGHT_BOX

2017-09-06 Thread Jon Evans
Update: apparently the solution was to restart my computer, because apparently in Mac OS the clipboard manager daemon can just stop working... and this is common enough that people blog about it. https://danwarne.wordpress.com/2014/03/05/fix-stuck-mac-os-clipboard-copypaste/ *rolls eyes* -Jon

Re: [Kicad-developers] Mac questions: fast build and BRIGHT_BOX

2017-09-06 Thread Jon Evans
These aren't just benign asserts, the actual function (copy version to clipboard) doesn't work for me. I tried on release build, and the function still doesn't work (shows a popup error: "Failed to create the clipboard"). I will dig in a bit more if I have time. -Jon On Wed, Sep 6, 2017 at 1:52

Re: [Kicad-developers] Mac questions: fast build and BRIGHT_BOX

2017-09-06 Thread jp charras
Le 06/09/2017 à 19:29, Bernhard Stegmaier a écrit : > I didn’t see any issues with release builds - I did use it a couple of times > the last days. > On all of my machines, also on 10.12. > > Maybe this assertion is only active in debug builds (didn’t try a debug build > for some while)? > >

Re: [Kicad-developers] Mac questions: fast build and BRIGHT_BOX

2017-09-06 Thread Jon Evans
+I added this issue as LP: 1715440 One more Mac OS issue that I'm curious if others see on 10.12: "Copy Version Info" from the About dialog doesn't work, and results in the following debug assertions: ../src/osx/carbon/clipbrd.cpp(65): assert "m_pasteboard" failed in Clear(): Clipboard creation

Re: [Kicad-developers] Mac questions: fast build and BRIGHT_BOX

2017-09-05 Thread Bernhard Stegmaier
Hi, (1) You can’t run standalone applications (won’t find libraries), but you can run project manager directly from build directory. Like this from console (for me): <<< HackMini:build bstegmaier$ kicad/kicad.app/Contents/MacOS/kicad >>> Or just start it via Finder from build/kicad… (2) Yes,

[Kicad-developers] Mac questions: fast build and BRIGHT_BOX

2017-09-05 Thread Jon Evans
Hi Mac developers: 1) is there an easy way to quickly rebuild a single app and run it? I'm used to being able to do that on Linux, but it seems like I can't run apps out of the build directory on Mac (have to run "make install" which repackages all applications and is slow). 2) It seems like