[RNLD: ] Toolbox and crossover

[John Mansfield]

I recently set up Toolbox to run on Winebottler on my Mac (10.5.8), and so
far it's working very smoothly. Installation was pretty easy too.

j

On 25 April 2012 09:43, Alan Buseman <alan_buseman at sil.org> wrote:

> Thanks to all who have reported problems running Toolbox under
> CrossOverMac 11. The Mac page of the Toolbox website has been
> updated to no longer recommend CrossOverMac. Instead it suggests
> people try WineBottler. If that works well, it is an improvement
> over CrossOverMac because it is free.
>
> Alan Buseman, Toolbox development
>
> On Wed, 25 Apr 2012 07:31:54 +1000
>  Nick Thieberger <thien at unimelb.edu.au> wrote:
> >For those using Crossover to run Toolbox on a Mac: I upgraded to
> >Crossover 11 and found that my Toolbox windows were scrambled, with no
> >field markers displayed and weird format errors (none of which was
> >present in the data file itself).
> >
> >I reinstalled Crossover 10.1.1 and Toolbox works again. Others on the
> >Toolbox list have reported a similar experience.
> >
> >Alternatives to Crossover (that also do not require you to buy Windows)
> are:
> >Virtual Box and Wine, see Mark Post's message:
> >
> https://groups.google.com/group/shoeboxtoolbox-field-linguists-toolbox/browse_thread/thread/dda88ad9fd27298a
> >
> >I have installed Wine and it seems to run fine on a Mac under 10.6.8.
> >
> >Nick
> >
> >(Thanks to Josh on the Toolbox list for infor about Virtual Box)
>
>
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