I am in a bit of a bind and wanted to see if anyone else ran into this problem.
When I publish sketches from processing (3.4 or Alpha) as exported applications, the process goes ok. But when I try and open the new application on my Macbook, the application quits immediately.
I’ve looked into a few a things already:
The sketch runs fine, so I know it’s not a frameRate issue
I have not notarized the sketch via the new apple system (is this a must?), but I’ve read a few threads about it.
This is from the error log for apple:
Application Specific Information:
BUG IN CLIENT OF LIBDISPATCH: Assertion failed: Block was expected to execute on queue [com.apple.main-thread]
abort() called
This is the error that I see when I right click the application → go to contents → mac folder → double click/try and run the application (this log appears in terminal)
A fatal error has been detected by the Java Runtime Environment:
SIGILL (0x4) at pc=0x00007fff2018e25d, pid=12439, tid=18947
Thanks for the tip @josephh . (great reminder to start with the simple and straight forward things) : I tried the ulimit -c unlimited, the file increase, but the application still crashes on play/opening.
I had to abandon attempting the different java versions for now or solving this issue – I need to spend a little bit more time updating my mac-book to do further testing…
My short term solution for now: use Mac’s Automator to build an “application” that opens terminal and runs processing-java to call the sketch:
For presentation purposes I used fullScreen(); instead of calling presentation so I can deactivate the cursor
Second : if I moved the processing application on Mac, I’ll need to reinstall the processing-java tools
Pre-script work:
Make sure to install Processing-Java - it’s in the processing IDE, under tools.
Once that’s done, you’ll need to find the file path to file you need to launch.
This is the reference I used for the commands: link. this took me a while to get right.
NOTE: if you move your PDE file, the script won’t work…and you’ll need update the PDE file path.
Now to the automator script…
First I wrote a simple bash script saved to run the PDE application (with processing-java):
Because the new Mac Book used Zsh, I used this guide to create an alias of the processing java command, and called it something like custom_bash_script ( in reality it’s much shorter and something like arton).
Make sure to test the script in terminal before moving onto the next bulleted item.
Then I used this apple script as reference: link
My apple script went something like this…
tell application "Terminal"
do script "custom_bash_script "
Under system preferences; users – I made login in automatic and under login items, I added my automator workflow (so it launches when the computer turns on)
Lastly, because I wanted to control the computer turning on and off every day on it’s own, I bought the software Mac Power Manager.
I guess I could have written a bash script for this too, but I wanted to make this as easy as possible to change later, by myself or others.
Sorry I didn’t share my exact app, as I created directly on the mac that’s now at the gallery… Nonetheless, I hope this helps and happy to answer more in depth questions.
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