Mac X/ 2.0.8 patch question

st.patrik · #1 March 14th, 2004, 04:55 AM

I thought someone had mentioned this earlier, but you need to CONTROL CLICK on the Dom II application and then choose SHOW PACKAGE CONTENTS from the contextual menu. This will open up a whole new folder in which you will find the things you seek.

Etaoin Shrdlu · #2 March 15th, 2004, 06:09 AM

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Originally posted by st.patrik:
I thought someone had mentioned this earlier, but you need to CONTROL CLICK on the Dom II application and then choose SHOW PACKAGE CONTENTS from the contextual menu. This will open up a whole new folder in which you will find the things you seek.

For the result, look two Posts after (above) your previous post in this thread... But if I'm reading Johan's Last post correctly, the guiborder.tga file should have already been there when I installed from the CD the first time. And it wasn't.

Next?? This is getting to be quite a mystery... not that that's a problem, I like the odd mystery now and again...

Johan K · #3 March 15th, 2004, 11:58 AM

If you follow St. Patriks advice on your CD you should actually find the guiborder.tga file. Then reinstall or copy that single file from the CD and you'll have it on your hard drive as well.

st.patrik · #4 March 15th, 2004, 09:49 PM

Sorry if you already tried it. I guess what you said here...

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Originally posted by Etaoin Shrdlu:
I've looked on my CD. That folder isn't there. The item {dominions2.app} is marked as an application, not a folder with the attendant subfolders.

...made me think that you didn't understand that there can be subfolders within an application (if you control click and choose 'show package contents'). I have a mac and didn't realise this myself for quite a while, so I guess I didn't suppose that you would have known to try this.

Etaoin Shrdlu · #5 March 15th, 2004, 10:56 PM

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Originally posted by Johan K:
If you follow St. Patriks advice on your CD you should actually find the guiborder.tga file. Then reinstall or copy that single file from the CD and you'll have it on your hard drive as well.

Perhaps one of us is asking the wrong question... likely everyone involved is missing the intent of everyone else's statements.
I interpret your statement as: Control-click and show package contents on Dominions2.app on the CD. (beat left here as I do this...) (feel free to re-interpret as was actually intended...)

It isn't a package!

The dominions2.app patch is a package but without the relevant file when I show package contents on it . I'll say this again: The dominions2.app on my CD _is not a package_. It may should have been but it just isn't. It could be a misprint of the CD but then wouldn't there be other errors? And even if I do get this file by ... other means

will there be something else needed and not present?
(At this point something inexplicable happens that voids that whole above paragraph...)(post evolving in real time as I'm Actually Doing Things that are being typed...)(As in: the previous part of the post was on build when what happened next... happened. I type the way I speak, and since I'd already "said" the above, I can't take it back...)
(cue theremin AGAIN)
Wait, hold everything! I accidentally COMMAND-clicked and THEN control-clicked and now I get a package contents prompt! And a guiborder2.tga!

Which the unix executable STILL can't open!

At least no longer because of its (non-Sudden) Massive Existence Failure...
I don't know what possessed me to try that maneuver... Unfortunately this just means the mystery is a bit deeper... since .tga files are just images ...

Now what am I doing wrong? I have the file that couldn't be opened, and it still can't be opened.
Edit was the third parenthetical in the middle section and a few wording changes

[ March 16, 2004, 01:57: Message edited by: Etaoin Shrdlu ]

Johan K · #6 March 16th, 2004, 04:51 PM

If you delete the dominions app, copy it from the CD again and then run it without applying the patch. Does it work then?

Etaoin Shrdlu · #7 March 16th, 2004, 09:59 PM

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Originally posted by Johan K:
If you delete the dominions app, copy it from the CD again and then run it without applying the patch. Does it work then?

Yes. Installing as 2.02 always succeeds. Then after copying patch items back in... no effect. Also, I don't see the show package contents option until after command-clicking the .app file. (Maybe include that in the explanations?) Interestingly, after running the Unix executable my screen res in-game drops back to 640*480 (which looks bloody awful on this screen)...

BTW on my previous post this thread, I was in fact ready to send off the first half of the message, and on a total fluke hit the events of the second half while considering possible re-wordings.
And what would the Unix executable need the GUI image (the game's GUI image besides) for anyway? Was the fact it was requested causing me to ask the Wrong Question? Judging by what I've run into so far, I've caught so many red herrings I could probably make the purchase price back if I pickled them...