Textpad and Mac

Nedylene · Post by **Nedylene** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 12:21 am

Alright so set up my new computer and trying to transfer old files from my PC to my mac. No problem doing it, however, transfering a .are file from textpad into the mac word program makes it come out in a jarbled mess. Really bad jarbled mess... textpad only has a windows application so what now? Is there an equivilant program to textpad for mac computers or I have heard there is conversion software to run windows programs and games on a mac computer. Anyone have the imput and information?

~Nedy

Japcil · Post by **Japcil** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 1:25 am

You could use fk builder which works off of java and saves files as '.are'. Here is a link: http://www.japcilkawalk.com/files/FKBuilder.jar You will still need to place it in the same area as fkbit.lst file I believe.

Kirkus · Post by **Kirkus** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 4:17 am

If you want to run windows on your shiny new mac you can download 'Boot Camp' it will partition your hard drive and basically you will load windows into your second partition. But I must warn you... follow the directions! I was running back and forth between home and work and skipped looking at the directions for one insy tinsy little step.. deleated my entire hard drive. But its all better now and runs like a charm.

Nedylene · Post by **Nedylene** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 5:04 pm

On Boot Camp is it something that the installation needs to be done online or it is a program I can download to a flash drive then transfer it to the mac (it is still a short bit till I get internet at home)

Japcil · Post by **Japcil** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 5:18 pm

http://www.apple.com/macosx/bootcamp/

Will answer most of your questions. But you will need a jumdrive that holds 350MB roughly. Not too uncommon these days. Also you will need a full version of windows(XP or later) to install onto the computer, the mac must be intel based and have OS Tiger 10.4

Someone should drag Todd in here, he has alot of exp with Macs.

Dalvyn · Post by **Dalvyn** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 7:25 pm

I do not know much about the Mac world, but they must have a text editor with syntax highlighting, no? I would guess it would be possible to translate the list of keywords made for Texpad into something that works with it.

Anybody knows?

Nedylene · Post by **Nedylene** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 7:30 pm

The problem I had is that switching it over it keps all of the text and coding but the spacing was off and alot of the "stops" were linked together into a continuous word wrap type thing. So the files ARE salvagable it would just take me ALOT of work

Japcil · Post by **Japcil** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 7:47 pm

Textwrangler looks like it supports custom syntax highlighting along with predetermined settings for java, C++, perl and others. Need a mac vm at least to write the custom portion and then repackage it to distribute here.

Dalvyn · Post by **Dalvyn** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 8:35 pm

Nedylene wrote:The problem I had is that switching it over it keps all of the text and coding but the spacing was off and alot of the "stops" were linked together into a continuous word wrap type thing. So the files ARE salvagable it would just take me ALOT of work

You might need to find a special text file converter from PC format to Mac format. Actually, I'm just guessing ... I'm not sure what I say here is correct. Windows/PC and Unix systems use different "special characters" to represent end of lines/"stops"; it is quite possible that Mac use a third system (one with /n/r, one with /n, and one with /r).

Kregor · Post by **Kregor** » Wed Sep 05, 2007 6:11 am

I use TextWrangler for all my area writing, code hacking and etc. And yes, it does have syntax hiliting, automatic indenting, and all kinds of stuff that make it a very nice tool for mud coding.

I have a syntax file that was a hack job of the syntax file Dalvyn posted for TextPad. I'll see if I can post it in a downloadable format.

Kregor · Post by **Kregor** » Wed Sep 05, 2007 6:21 am

You can download the module here:

http://www.infografix.net/FKMudLanguageModule.plist

Once downloaded, make sure you download and install TextWrangler at http://www.barebones.com/products/textwrangler/

Once TextWrangler is installed, go HOME in the Go menu of your Finder, then Library->Application Support->TextWrangler->Language Modules

Copy the above plist file into the Language Modules folder.

Launch TextWrangler

Now, "FKMud Module" should be available as a language syntax in the pull down menu of syntaxes at the bottom of every text file you open or create.

Nedylene · Post by **Nedylene** » Wed Sep 05, 2007 4:12 pm

Thanks guys I appreciate it. Will go through and try it all this weekend and see where I can get with it

Nedylene · Post by **Nedylene** » Fri Jan 11, 2008 5:01 am

Alright... so figured out how to use text edit but not how to highlight it like text pad. So fixed everything I could see and now....

Anyone have any tips on how to run FK check on a mac?

Japcil · Post by **Japcil** » Fri Jan 11, 2008 5:30 am

There are a few programs out there that allow you to run windows programs on macs, not sure exact names, but I bet Kregor does. The FKBuilder java program works on the macs and all you need to do is open your .are file in it. Save often however, I have experienced crashes with it in the past.

Nedylene · Post by **Nedylene** » Fri Jan 11, 2008 6:23 am

Boot Camp allows you to run windows programs on a mac. However you need a valid window's OS ... which I can't afford atm

Moloch · Post by **Moloch** » Fri Jan 11, 2008 6:54 am

Parallel's Desktop, also.

Kregor · Post by **Kregor** » Fri Jan 11, 2008 7:41 pm

Refer to my post above Nedylene.

You can't use Text Pad to hilite. Won't do it. You have to download TextWrangler (it's free, so no reason not to) and use the syntax file I created.

Mind you, my syntax file may not be up to date, but it works for the most part.

As far as FKCheck, use FKBuilder, as Japcil recommended above. It works fine for me in preflighting area files.

Nedylene · Post by **Nedylene** » Fri Jan 11, 2008 8:03 pm

Thanks Kregor and to Mazikeen. A mac computer definately comes with a learning curve and I appreciate the help!

Nedylene · Post by **Nedylene** » Sat Jan 12, 2008 2:03 am

This is where I am coming into problems. I do not have a language modules in my text wrangler folder under library. I have menu scripts, scripts, unix support and a read me file. And I downloaded the most recent version of Text wrangler.

Kregor · Post by **Kregor** » Sat Jan 12, 2008 2:36 pm

Then make a folder called Language Modules (case sensitive as well) in that folder, then drop the file into it, relaunch the program.