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Which commit ID had been tagged az "4.1b1"? Sorry, I don't bother tagging any commits. And I would like to report a bug, HexGrid.lua vs 4.1b1 floods patterns with rules defined by ruleloader ... Thanks for the report. Bug fixed in this version: https://sourceforge.net/p/golly/code/ci/00d44616fd406b...

The 1st beta version of Golly 4.1 is now available for testing: http://www.trevorrow.com/golly/Golly-4.1b1-Mac.dmg (for macOS 10.10+) http://www.trevorrow.com/golly/golly-4.1b1-gtk-64bit.tar.gz (for 64-bit Linux) http://www.trevorrow.com/golly/golly-4.1b1-win-64bit.zip (for 64-bit Windows 7+) Change...

Can anyone else who has done a fresh install of Golly 4.0, rather than an upgrade, confirm that those shortcuts are available? Confirmed on my Mac. The easy way to test this: * Quit Golly if it's running. * Rename any existing GollyPrefs file that's in the same location as the Golly app. * Create a...

Good to know. Thanks for reporting the solution.

Golly 1.3 for iPad is now available from the App Store. Note that your iPad must be running iOS 13.0 or later. My old iPad can't even use that iOS so I haven't been able to test Golly 1.3 on an actual iPad, but it works ok in my Mac's Simulator so hopefully it will be ok on your iPad! Not a lot of c...

Mac OS 11.1, only in Golly, and only when trying to draw ... Yep, I see the same bug on my Mac system. Doesn't seem to happen on Windows or Linux so I suspect this bug is due to the recent changes I made to support Retina displays. I'll make sure this gets fixed in the next release. (BTW, the next ...

Golly 4.0.1 for macOS is now available from sourceforge: https://sourceforge.net/projects/golly/files/golly/golly-4.0/ This version fixes 2 problems in the 4.0 macOS version: 1. Golly could not run any Python scripts. 2. Switching to Dark mode caused some text to become unreadable. Please let me kno...

Yes! This build works. I can run Python scripts using both the official Python 3.9 and Homebrew Python 3.8. Excellent! Thanks for doing all that testing (incredibly annoying that I can't test the dmg files properly by myself!). Good to know that the Homebrew version of Python 3.8 also works fine. L...

@wildmyron: Please try this build:

http://www.trevorrow.com/golly/Golly-4.0.3-Mac.dmg

Further googling indicated that the com.apple.security.cs.disable-library-validation setting must be embedded in the code signature rather than in Info.plist, so hopefully the above build will work.

I tried this build and it gives the exact same error text as v4.0.1 Bummer. I guess this doc from Apple is relevant: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/bundleresources/entitlements/com_apple_security_cs_disable-library-validation That's what I thought. The Info.plist file in the 4.0.2 build ...

@wildmyron: Ok, try running a .py script with this build:

http://www.trevorrow.com/golly/Golly-4.0.2-Mac.dmg

@wildmyron and @LaundryPizza03: Please try running a .py script with this special build: http://www.trevorrow.com/golly/Golly-4.0.1-Mac.dmg Along with the usual "Could not load the Python library" dialog, you should get an extra "Golly Error" dialog box. Please tell me the *exact* error message in t...

I wondered about testing the Python library with some other app which requires embedded Python. Can you (or anyone else) suggest an app which embeds Python3 and uses it in a similar way which I could test with? Sorry, I don't know of any other apps like that. Also, would it be helpful for me to do ...

@wildmyron: A few more thoughts. Run these commands in Terminal (on my Mac the results are empty): echo $DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH echo $DYLD_FALLBACK_LIBRARY_PATH Save the following code as dltest.c, build and run dltest and see if you get an error message: // to build: gcc -mmacosx-version-min=10.10 -o dl...

It's in the "Could not load the Python3 library" dialog: ... Ouch -- that's annoying. It's a pity nobody noticed this while testing the 4.0 beta versions. Hopefully that's because only a tiny minority of Windows users end up having to replace python39.dll with the full path to that file (I still ha...

gameoflifemaniac wrote: ↑

November 1st, 2020, 1:41 pm

I directed it to python3.dll instead of python39.dll because that's what Golly told me to do ...

Where did Golly tell you to use python3.dll?
The notes in Help > Python Scripting clearly state that Golly looks for python39.dll on Windows.

Anyway, glad you managed to get it working.

On macOS 10.14.5, the file area's font is white, rendering the names of non-selected items unreadable, ... Thanks for the screenshot (bubblegum, take note!). Golly doesn't know about Apple's new Dark mode, so you have 2 options: 1. Disable Dark mode for ALL apps by opening System Preferences > Gene...

I can't seem to use Python anymore. Changing to the version I'm using (3.8) did not help. The directory should be /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.8/Python, but that doesn't work. I am using macOS. I'll need more info. How exactly did you install Python 3.8? Did you download the inst...

Golly 4.0 is now available from sourceforge: https://sourceforge.net/projects/golly/files/golly/golly-4.0/ See Help > Changes for what's new. Note in particular that Golly now requires Python 3.3 or later to run .py scripts, so all users (including Mac users) will need to download an appropriate 64-...

I've updated the links in the top post to Golly 4.0. If no problems are reported in the next couple of days then these builds will be uploaded to sourceforge. Changes since version 4.0b3: - The Super algo has a new set of default icons. - A new script command: getgridtype. - A couple of minor bug fi...

_zM wrote: ↑

October 25th, 2020, 6:35 pm

Update on this: 3.4 works again, as does 4.0b2 ...

Good to hear -- thanks for letting us know.

I've updated the links in the top post to point to builds for Golly 4.0b3. This fixes the crash Saka reported as well as a couple of other minor bugs. There are now some examples of Super algo patterns in Patterns/Super.

I'm hoping this will be the last beta release of Golly 4.0.

After updating my graphics drivers both Golly 3.4 and Golly 4.0b2 crash on startup with the following error messages: ... Sorry, but I've really got no idea why you would get those errors. It looks like you're using Linux, so which flavor and version? All I can suggest is reverting to your old driv...

I'm trying out v4 on my MacBook at the moment and I've been unable to get Python working with HomeBrew's Python3. ... Try entering the path reported by otool: /usr/local/opt/python@3.8/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.8/Python If that fails then I guess there is some incompatibility in the wa...

I've updated the links in the top post to point to builds for Golly 4.0b2. This version should fix the HROT-related crashes.

I'm still worried by Saka's report of crashes when running Python scripts so if anybody can reproduce those crashes in 4.0b2 please let us know ASAP.