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#1 · May 11, 2011, 8:00 pm

Anyone want to make a extras menu patcher for mac? The mac community would be very grateful :mrgreen:
i know how to load maps from the console but its a pain.

#2 · May 11, 2011, 9:34 pm

Does the Java version not work for the Mac? Write once, run anywhere, right?

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#3 · May 11, 2011, 9:53 pm

Better question is, did he try the Java version.

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#4 · May 11, 2011, 10:19 pm

I figured that was implied by my question.

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#5 · May 11, 2011, 11:36 pm

oh i guess i should have asked that first :oops:

i tried it but got error
5/11/11 11:33:10 PM [0x0-0x230230].com.apple.JarLauncher[40362] Could not determine the path to Portal 2. Please enter the full path to your Portal 2 folder. It should end with "steamappscommonportal 2".

#6 · May 12, 2011, 11:10 am

zbakes@mac.com wrote:

oh i guess i should have asked that first :oops:

i tried it but got error
5/11/11 11:33:10 PM [0x0-0x230230].com.apple.JarLauncher[40362] Could not determine the path to Portal 2. Please enter the full path to your Portal 2 folder. It should end with "steamappscommonportal 2".

Errr, enter the right path then? I dunno, I'm not familiar with the patcher or how it works.

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#7 · May 12, 2011, 2:44 pm

If I had to guess (i.e. when I dabbled with trying to write one of these), it probably reads it from the Windows Registry. So maybe the Java version won't work.

It should be possible for the Java version developer to detect the lack of a registry and read the Steam path from... uh... somewhere.

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#8 · May 12, 2011, 3:34 pm

Or just let the user select the path altogether.

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#9 · May 12, 2011, 4:18 pm

there is no way for me to put the correct path in without editing the .jar file and messing it up even more

#10 · May 12, 2011, 4:24 pm

I would post in the thread for the Java version and ask the author to either fix up whatever problem with running on a Mac, or allow some way for the user to manually select the path.

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