Can't open the preferences under Mac OS X

[lempp@…]

Under Mac OS X you can't open the preferences window. There's neither a button in the toolbar nor a menu item nor does F12 work. Just look at the attached screenshots.
Affects latest and tested. Deleting the preferences file does not help.

Everything's fine under WinXP though.
Everything was fine under Mac OS a few versions ago. (like mid January)

[lempp@…]

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[lempp@…]

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[anonymous]

Could you try older version from Download and find the last version which works for you?

I don't remember any changes regarding the prefs dialog which could cause such differences.

[anonymous]

v1348 works, v1359 and newer have the defect. I can't test the versions between these two because I don't find them in ​http://josm.openstreetmap.de/download/

[anonymous]

Hmpf. There have been no changes inbetween, which could explain that behaviour. Could you please delete all plugins in plugin-directory and redownload them.

If this does not work please attach your preferences file (strip your password/username) as zipped file.

[xeen]

Have a look at ​http://mathphys.fsk.uni-heidelberg.de/~stefan/josm/ I uploaded the missing revisions there. Could you please check after which version it exactly fails because this will really simplify finding the issue! Note that the version won't be visible from within JOSM as I haven't setup version control correctly, so it displays "UNKNOWN".

[anonymous]

1348 … OK
1349 … buggy
1350 … buggy
1351 … buggy
1352 … buggy
1353 … buggy
1354 … buggy
1355 … buggy
1356 … buggy
1357 … buggy
1358 … buggy

[anonymous]

There is nothing between 1348 and 1349. This must be a side effect of something else. Does Apple have another system standard method to invoke preferences? Does this work? Probably this is somehow related to the OSX-Plattform hook.

To me it seems that hook does not allow to add a preferences menu and F12 is also registered as system hotkey.

The recent changes to toolbar also prevent a toolbar entry (but this should also be already in version 1348).

[FourOhFour]

Looks like the OS is moving the preferences item to the Mac menubar. Either select it there or use command-comma.

[anonymous]

No, that was possible before.

[xeen]

Hm, that 1348 works but 1349 doesn't… here's a quick test, I don't know what I'm actually doing but maybe it works (this is really the only line changed in between these versions that remotely could cause this).

​http://mathphys.fsk.uni-heidelberg.de/~stefan/josm/josm-custom.jar

This version contains a lot of other patches from my tree, so other stuff may not work, I'm just curious if it the prefs can be opened again.

[lempp@…]

yeah xeen, that's the stuff. The toolbar button's there!

Also thanks for that workaround, FourOhFour.

But: The preferences entry in the edit menu is still missing (even in xeen's josm-custom) which made me do some research: That entry was last seen in josm-1014. 1030 has the defect. I'm afraid there's a big gap in the download archive, so I can't be more precise.

Also the info entry in the help menu was last seen in josm-1212. Mind the gap!
But the info window is still reachable as shown in screenshot #3.

[lempp@…]

Screenshot #3

[xeen]

I'll see what I can dig up about the toolbar button tomorrow as I have no idea what I actually did. If anyone knows more than me: I just re-added line 427 in ToolbarPreferences.java (see ​http://josm.openstreetmap.de/changeset/1349) without removing the line below.

I'll provide the missing JOSM versions tomorrow to see when the menu item disappeared, maybe that helps understanding the issue. Lempp, do you have some kind of instant messenger installed, as a >direct connection< will make finding the issue much easier and faster.

[lempp@…]

just e-mail me

[anonymous]

In r1393 I added a patch which should get the toolbar value back. The menu-issue is something else, as this is part of the MacOS integration and "by design".

Does the fix solve your problem?

[lempp@…]

Thank you, my anonymous helper. That fix solved my problem. (at least the one with the toolbar button)

[anonymous]

I have tried r1394, but the bug is still there.

[anonymous]

Well as said the problem with missing menu is something else. This is based on the MacOS integration. We can change that but I'm sure it is by-design. And I myself don't have a Mac so I cannot really decide what to do.

What I did is to reenable the Toolbar settings entry.

[anonymous]

Hmmpf, don't know why the menu entries does not appear under OSX. Seems this is a bug.

[smsm1]

I don't have a problem with the preferences on Mac OS X. They are just done the Mac way.

[jahve@…]

Replying to anonymous:

Hmmpf, don't know why the menu entries does not appear under OSX. Seems this is a bug.

The Mac-type menubar should show up when setting Look and feel to "Mac OS X" in preferences. At least it works for me using latest stable version, 1566.

However, the application title bug mentioned in #1589 is still around.

[jahve@…]

Mac menu works but application title isn't userfriendly

[anonymous]

Application title was working before, so this is a regression.

(Hint: OSX always displays the name of the main class there if you start a .jar directly. So at some time last year a "dummy" main class named "josm" was created. Did someone change it back to the fully pathed class?)

[anonymous]

PS: I just checked teh source. The build.xml still correctly says '<attribute name="Main-class" value="JOSM" />', but the MANIFEST.MF says 'Main-class: org.openstreetmap.josm.gui.MainApplication' --- and that's wrong.

What tool chain is used to create the josm-latest.jar? It seems to not use the build.xml...

[stoecker]

Class name should be fixed in next build.