No Disk Image background on Leopard 10.5
October 29th, 2009
Some have been having a little problem installing Watchtower Library for Mac. The message appearing in the Console message log concerns “not finding an image” in libwine. This sounds like the Watchtower Framework has not been installed. Installation has two phases: first the framework, second the application.
So I did an experiment. I downgraded my laptop to 10.5, erasing any previous hard disk contents. So I then had a plain old Leopard 10.5 machine, no upgrades, just what the installation disk provides. Then I downloaded the disk image. It automatically download and displayed, to my surprise, its contents as follows.
The background image does not display. The background should explain the two-step instructions. Also, the icons do not have the correct size and position. It’s as if Disk Images (dmg files) created by Snow Leopard do not display correctly on the older version of OS X.
After some fiddling, I can confirm this is true. So I created a new disk image for version 1.2.2 on the Leopard machine and tried opening this on Snow Leopard—no problem at all. So it seems that 10.6 lacks some backward compatibility in the disk-image creation area!
Could this be the problem that some have been having? If so, try downloading the new Leopard-built disk image and following the installation instructions. Make sure the Watchtower Framework has been installed before launching the application. It cannot run without it.
October 31st, 2009 at 12:28 PM
First I’d like to thank you for this piece of great software. Unfortunately I seem to have some problems with the old-new version. Since I tried to install and run it, I haven’t been able to start either the new or the old version of WTL.
I have Leopard running on my Macbook, but this new version’s new disk image did not resolve anything for me. WTL still crashes instantly on start.
Here’s a part of my report, is it the same problem as you mention? http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/314558/Report.rtf
October 31st, 2009 at 12:53 PM
Dear Jens, Yes yours is the same problem as reported here. Unfortunately, I haven’t been able to recreate this. And so haven’t made much progress in resolving it. Would be handy to meet up with someone like yourself on iChat, so I can see what’s happening!
November 2nd, 2009 at 04:21 AM
parts of your site are not working correctly. The image will not download. I am downloading it at a 3rd party download site instead.
April 7th, 2010 at 10:52 PM
I tried to install Wtlib but when I down load disk image the Wtlib icon and the aplications icon are there but no framework icon. so i can not follow the directions because it asks me to drag Wtlib to framework icon