Sunday, 02 April 2006
Put AutoPairs to work on your Intel Macs
Late last night, I received an e-mail from AutoPairs developer James Walker. James and I had exchanged some messages previously regarding AutoPairs working on Intel Macs. Now, he has discovered a workaround.
If you have a PowerPC Mac, which I do in the form of my PowerBook G4, copy the System Preferences application from that Mac to your Intel Mac. In my case, I copied the AutoPairs pref pane from the PowerBook as well, putting it in ~/Library/PreferencePanes.
Rename the copied System Preferences application. I renamed my copied app to “SysPref PPC AP config”, so I would know at a glance what it’s sitting on my desktop for.
Launch the renamed application.
The AutoPairs pref pane showed up and I was able to click on it to activate it and open its configuration window.
Quitting, I switched to BBEdit, and tried out some parentheses and quotes, and it worked like a charm! Thanks, James!
posted on April 2, 2006 08:21 PM
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Well... is this some kind of bad joke or is it just a hoax? I tried to follow your description word for word, but I was unable to get it running.
console:
$ mkdir ~/Desktop/SysPref\ PPC\ AP\ config.prefpane
$ cp -R /Volumes/MacMini/Library/PreferencePanes/AutoPairs.prefPane/* ~/Desktop/SysPref\ PPC\ AP\ config.prefpane
$ open ~/Desktop/SysPref\ PPC\ AP\ config.prefpane
System Preferences, opens, ask where to install, then message:
Preferences Error You cannot open AutoPairs preferences pane on this computer. Contact the developer of this software for a newer version.
This is run on a MacBook Pro, OS X 10.4.6. Any ideas?
Posted by: damian vogel at April 9, 2006 01:18 PM
Damian,
I performed this on my Intel iMac under 10.4.5, so I cannot say if the system update may have been responsible for it not working on your system. Just to be clear, was the AutoPairs prefPane already in your ~/Library/PreferencePanes folder before you launched the renamed System Preferences application?
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at April 10, 2006 09:57 AM
Yes, the AutoPairs.prefpane was already in the ~/Library/PreferencePanes folder. But if I remove it or not, the result is the same.
Probably You are right, it is the system update to 10.4.6 that has changed the System Preferences App. Thanx for the help anyway, and You can report back to James it's not working anymore ...
Posted by: damian vogel at April 10, 2006 11:15 AM
Alright, NOW I understood. For the terminal freaks who (like I) didn't get the point:
$ mkdir /Applications/PPC\ Prefs.app
$ cp -R /Volumes/<PPC_Mac>/Applications/System\ Preferences.app/* /Applications/PPC\ Prefs.app
$ open /Applications/PPC\ Prefs.app
When you have the AutoPairs.prefpane installed on your Computer, You will be able to configure the AutoPairs from within that PPC Prefs App.
Posted by: damian vogel at April 10, 2006 04:27 PM