[AG-TECH] Mac OS 10.5.5 - bridges, mouse clicks

[Christoph Willing]

On 10/11/2008, at 3:05 PM, Christoph Willing wrote:

>
> On 10/11/2008, at 11:48 AM, Richard Rodgers wrote:
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> [snip]
>> On a separate note, though, when it first came up, it tested 31  
>> bridges, then complained that
>> bridges were disabled and suggested that I look in Preferences to  
>> remedy that.  I opened
>> Preferences, and selected "Bridging," and indeed every bridge  
>> appears as "Disabled."  Above
>> the list of bridges the popup instructs one to "Right-click a  
>> bridge below to enable or disable it."
>> I have no clue what they mean by "right-click" on a Mac.  I tried  
>> holding down the Control, Option, and Command keys while clicking  
>> (suggested by tricks used by X Windows on the
>> Mac), to no avail.  How do I turn on those bridges?  :)
>
>
> Rick,
>
> The general right-click trick is to hold down the Control key alone  
> and simultaneously click the mouse.
>
> Bridges initially become disabled in the bridge preferences dialog  
> as a result of the testing phase you mentioned. Additionally you  
> can disable them via the right-click menu. It is only this second  
> category of bridges that you can enable i.e. bridges you previously  
> manually disabled. I'm pretty sure you cannot enable bridges that  
> were disabled automatically during the testing phase.


Hmmm...

I just tried it and it seems that you _can_ manually enable enable an  
automatically disabled bridge. In the end, that doesn't really help  
you because when you try to enter a venue using that bridge, a  
warning message appears telling you that you can't connect to that  
bridge.


chris


> You may find that testing the bridges again will bring some of them  
> into the enabled category. You can force such a complete retesting  
> of the bridges using the Purge button at the bottom right of the  
> Preference's "Bridging" tab.
>
>
> chris
>
>
>
>> Todd Zimmerman wrote:
>>> On Fri, 2008-10-31 at 16:07 -0400, R. P. C. Rodgers wrote:
>>>
>>>> Dear AG Colleagues,
>>>>
>>>> The very latest AG package, 3.2 beta 1, claims to work on the  
>>>> Intel Mac under Mac OS X 10.5 --
>>>> but it refuses to start on my 10.5.5 machines.  Can someone  
>>>> remind me of where to look for the
>>>> appropriate log files to start trying to figure out the  
>>>> problem?  Alternatively, is there a known
>>>> problem using it under 10.5.5?  Thanks in advance for any guidance.
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I'm currently running 3.2 beta (build 1) on a 10.5.5 intel laptop  
>>> and
>>> all seems to be working fine (except the usual audio issues).
>>>
>>>
>>> I believe the logs can be found in ~/.AccessGrid3/Logs
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> Todd
>>>
>>>
>>
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> Christoph Willing                        +617 3365 8350
> QCIF Access Grid Manager
> University of Queensland
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Christoph Willing                        +617 3365 8350
QCIF Access Grid Manager
University of Queensland