OSX Beta

[karankhosla]

Glad to see this in the recent 5.9e update.

Seems pretty solid so far - a few notes:

- Certain files (for example all the .mdl files supplied in the Business Dynamics CD) do not open.
- The equation editor needs a little bit of space, perhaps a few pixels worth, on the left hand side of the window (see image attached)
- Would it be possible to have the osx window control buttons (red, yellow and green) on top of the image panels? See attached image
- One major feature request: Would it be possible to click on a graph (at any given time or value of independent variable) and be able to get value of the dependent variable!

More to come.

Best Wishes,

Karan

[bob@vensim.com]

Hi Karan,

Thanks for the notes. I will look into the mdl files from BD - that puzzles me. Good comment on spacing, and i am leaning toward making tool output windows of the ordinary type which will have the control buttons. The data model for graphs and tables will likely be revised to allow value extraction from graphs, but that will be a relatively big change.

Bob Eberlein

[karankhosla]

Thanks Bob - will keep you posted!

[Ralf]

Hello Bob,

Thanks for having made the Mac-version available also for MacOSC:-)

Downloading the HTML file of the manual (to embedd in the application itself) doesn't work.

Any trick on that to do?

Best, Ralf

[Ralf]

.... just the recent screenshot of what appears after pressing the download button.

Best, Ralf

[bob@vensim.com]

Thanks for the notes anyone using the OSX version should be sure to send me an email and ask to be put on the email list. A new version 5.9ex4 went up yesterday (Feb 11). I believe it fixes the problems described so far in this thread.

BTW there is no problem opening the Business Dynamics models that I can find, but there was a problem opening models on CDs and other read only media/volumes.

[ppmvanhooff]

Hi,

Thanks for the OSX version.

I have a problem with reading data from XLS: it seems that GET XLS CONSTANTS is not working at all.

Paul

vensim 5.9ex5
excel mac 12.2.3
OSX 10.6.2

[bob@vensim.com]

That is correct - the GET XLS funcitonality, compiled simulations and external functions are not yet implemented on the Mac.