macOS William Tell and the moving target

[Sydde]

It can be really frustrating trying to hit the moving target that is Mac OS.

I just found out that my first full project, a learning experience in the form of yet-more-minesweeper-idiocy, now more-or-less fails under Snow Leopard. I remain on PPC, so I have no real way of finding out exactly why it fails. It seems to run without actual errors, the sound effects work, but the images do not display (I have a friend with a new-ish iMac). I used a sub-classed NSMatrix of NSImageCells to draw the squares, but I am told the squares do not present images. The images are diced out of a single png file that is in Resources or an application support directory. Does anyone have some idea of what might have changed in NSImage, NSImageCell or NSMatrix in SL?. I am not really keen to dive back into it, but having it not working rankles me a bit.

 

[kainjow]

None of the classes you mentioned are deprecated, but there's a chance you're either using an API improperly, or you're using a method/function/class that got changed, or something else small like that. If you want to post your project somewhere I or someone else could take a look.

 

[Sydde]

Ok, I posted the project on my server. There was a lot of other clutter in that folder, which I stripped out of the archive. There are a couple of source files in there that were meant to be an attempted fix, but I never got to doing anything with them. The primary methods of interest would be in mField.m, -buildTilesetFromImage: and possibly -awakeFromNib

AYMMSI.tgz

The link will probably not work until at least an hour after the time on this post.