Re: EhePal?

2012-07-20 Thread Dónal Fitzpatrick
yep Gordon I wouldn't disagree. Particularly as the app is self-voicing. On 20 Jul 2012, at 17:29, Gordon Smith wrote: > Hi Donal > > On 20 Jul 2012, at 15:16, Dónal Fitzpatrick wrote: > > no no Gordon it is a Mac app but it's dependencies are X11. It's a mac > installer, everything. Sorry

Re: The EyePal on the Mac [was Re: EhePal?]

2012-07-20 Thread Gordon Smith
hi Esther Essentially then it comes to the same thing. Virtualisation seems to me to be the best solution in order to make a bad thing usable unless or until they produce a native CoCo compiled version for Mac OS X so that it can run in the native environment. On 20 Jul 2012, at 15:47, Esther

Re: EhePal?

2012-07-20 Thread Gordon Smith
Hi Donal On 20 Jul 2012, at 15:16, Dónal Fitzpatrick wrote: no no Gordon it is a Mac app but it's dependencies are X11. It's a mac installer, everything. Sorry for the confusion. There is also a windows version. This is just a very bad port to OSX. Right, I'm with you now. All the same, th

The EyePal on the Mac [was Re: EhePal?]

2012-07-20 Thread Esther
Hi All, On Jul 20, 2012, Dónal Fitzpatrick wrote: > no no Gordon it is a Mac app but it's dependencies are X11. It's a mac > installer, everything. Sorry for the confusion. There is also a windows > version. This is just a very bad port to OSX. >> >> Essentially Humanware have this product

Re: EhePal?

2012-07-20 Thread Dónal Fitzpatrick
no no Gordon it is a Mac app but it's dependencies are X11. It's a mac installer, everything. Sorry for the confusion. There is also a windows version. This is just a very bad port to OSX. On 20 Jul 2012, at 15:13, Gordon Smith wrote: > Hi Donal > > Yes, this would be better on Techno-Chat.

Re: EhePal?

2012-07-20 Thread Gordon Smith
Hi Donal Yes, this would be better on Techno-Chat. :) Interesting, I wonder whether the competition might be better. I believe that Sight and Sound is a reseller in the UK, along with a certain other company whom I shall not mention for reasons of personal preference. :) I forget the name of

Re: EhePal?

2012-07-20 Thread Dónal Fitzpatrick
Oh it's a mac app all right Gordon. Essentially Humanware have this product which they sell predominently on windows. It's an OCR app based on a camera mounted on a metal frame. The devs have ported (in inverted commas) to mac by using X11 and Wine. *smile* it blurs your boundaries actually i

Re: EhePal?

2012-07-20 Thread Gordon Smith
I'm curious. what is this app? If there's no Mac OS X or iOS version it's off topic for this group, of course. :) Gordon On 20 Jul 2012, at 14:27, Dónal Fitzpatrick wrote: I'm no fan of Humanware, but they don't develop this application they are merely a reseller. <--- Mac Access At Mac Ac