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[Christopher Green <chriszold@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi RaiMan.
You're quite right; The nightly build installer now works great and results in a standard app. To be clear, I'm on OSX Yosemite 10.10.2 at this point, and Java Version 8, update 40.

One of the problems here is that when someone (like Michael) sees
"stable version' on the website, it is fairly reasonable to expect them
to make assumptions about that link. Not having a clear file to install
a working version on OSX in a fairly standard way (I realize though,
that at this point there IS a standard installed app now, see below) is
likely to make people give up on using this software. It's almost a
given that most visitors to this site would not bother to complain about
it. The kind of complaint that gets through will be like Michael's
which, though less "polite", is totally expected, in my view.

Having instructions like this:

"2. How do I download SikuliX
We are still on the Nightly Build page with version 1.1.0 pre-final:
If you are sure: Using the following link will directly start the download of sikulixsetup-1.1.0.jar."

Is confusing. "We are still on the Nightly Build page" doesn't tell the
visitor anything about what version works with what. Especially if
"stable version" is usually assumed to be the safe working version. "If
you are sure" is also totally confusing. Sure about what? It's just not
working, from a reasonable user interface/browsing perspective.

I could get into the minutia about why the site and its OSX versions are
confusing or misleading, but it should suffice to say that there is a
lack of clarity here. And simplicity. Here's the ideal: One page of
instructions. Mavericks+? LINK->DOWNLOAD->INSTALL. DONE.

Now, just to be sure I understood everything in its latest form, I
zipped everything I had for backup (which still used the .jar, not the
.app, to launch Sikuli), deleted those originals, and reinstalled from
the "sikulixsetup-1.1.0.jar" file. Everything works great, so I deleted
my back up zips (after grabbing my existing scripts and putting them in
my new Sikuli folder) and have the new app working. And I don't have to
bother with the bundle flag stuff with the .sikuli files (because the
app takes care of that now, as it should, as you mentioned).


FOR ANYONE WHO IS CONFUSED ABOUT WHAT TO INSTALL, HERE IS WHAT YOU DO (there are a few personal preferences here, but I think this is the best process):
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If you have OSX Mavericks or later, go to the http://nightly.sikuli.de/ page (the nightly builds page), ignore everything but the part that reads:

"The only file needed to download: 
sikulixsetup-1.1.0 (store and run in an empty folder)"

... and download that sikulixsetup file.

Put this in its own folder, call the folder "Sikuli".

Run the setup file. Choose option 1, add the jruby option. Install and
wait for downloading and installing to do their thing.

You should get the "Hallo from Sikulix.texstSetup. Python Scripting
SikuliX seems to be working!" message (maybe two of these).

You can now move the Sikuli folder containing the app, the "Downloads"
folder and the setup file to the standard /Applications/ folder. You can
delete both the "Downloads" folder in the Sikuli folder and the original
setup jar file.

It's probably a good idea to make a new folder called "Scripts" and keep all your sikuli script files in there. It is a personal preference (some might like that to be in ~/Documents/, for example), but I like having this in the Sikuli folder so that everything is located within a simple hierarchy.
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Title:
  [ALL VERSIONS] IDE does not start up on MAC OSX 10.10 Yosemite ---
  1.1.0 works (RC3 + 1.0.1 do not)

Status in Sikuli:
  Fix Committed

Bug description:
  A related typical Mac bug 1385595 (open scripts on OS X not possible)

  ------ 1.1.0 works (temp fix)
  switched of the search feature temporarily, that caused the crash
  nightly build available after August 28th
  ---------------------------

  RC3 and 1.0.1: will never be supported on OS X 10.10

  1.0.1: running scripts from command line should work (sikuli-
  script.jar) and usage in Java (sikuli-java.jar)

  --------------------------------------------------
  I was trying to run Sikuli 1.0.1 on Mac OSX 10.10. But it doesn't even able to open it & immediately turns into not responding mode.
  I have tried it with sikuli 1.1 beta version but this also not able to open sikuli. Please let me know if anyone has resolved this issue.

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