ComicBookLover is NOT Snow Leopard Compatible at least not Totally

[Dolphbucs]

Well, now we know why Simon and the others at BitCartel have been so silent about CBL for so long. I tried to fire up CBL this morning and although it will load fine and display all titles on the main page, it would no longer sort my titles by Genre, Publisher and Series properly. I would click on a Genre or Publisher and it would display no comics in the cover viewer. Plus it was very very sluggish even scrolling through the covers on the unsorted view. I tried all the old tricks I had bee using under Leopard .... emptying cache, etc. but nothing worked. So I thought that maybe it was a corrupted database. So I deleted the CBL folder under Application Support and the plist files and still the same issues. I then tried starting from scratch ... imported some new comics and assigned Genre and Publisher data to them and ... nothing. The data is not assigned to the comics. I then tried loading my CBL database onto a machine with Leopard and ... works fine. There is a little bright side. The reader functionality does still work well and CBL can still be used to generate cover thumbnails of the cbr and cbz files. But the whole point of CBL was that it was iTunes for comics .... and that functionality is broken.

[Dolphbucs]

OK, that is weird I have almost the same configuration as that on my MBP except I have a GeForce 8600M GT 256 mb graphics card. Of course the motherboard is different though.

Could you check one last thing? In your Applications/Utilities Folder there is an app called Java Preferences .... could you open that and look at the lower section and tell me what versions of Java show there and in which order? Thanks

[hoffman99]

ok opened the Java Preferences but not totally sure what I'm looking for. In the General Section (Java Applet Plugin) there's a option to select :

Java SE 6 64-bit or
Java SE 6 32-bit

There are for Web Browsers to determine the version the Java Virtual Machine to use and will load the first compatible architecture list. But nothing is selected.

In the bottom there's Java Applications

Java SE 6 64-bit or
Java SE 6 32-bit

It says, Java Applications, Web Start applications, and command line tools use this order to determine the most appropriate version of the Java Virtual Machine to use. Again it seems nothing is selected.

The Java version I have is 13.0.0

[Dolphbucs]

Nothing would be selected, it is just the order in which Java runs. I thought that maybe your machine was running an earlier version of Java ( SE 5 ) ... I had read somewhere that Snow Leopard sometimes removes earlier versions of Java from the machine and thought maybe CBL uses Java and there might be a conflict with that.

[Dolphbucs]

Very Strange. I did clean install ( erase HD and Install Snow Leopard ) on that exact MBP model .... well maybe not exact, I do have the GeForce 8600M GT graphics with 256 mb and the glossy 1920x1200 display ... did nothing after install except go to BitCartel and download a fresh copy of CBL ... imported 4 cbr files and the same issue occurs.

[Fred Duck]

I seem to have the same MBP as yours except I have a matte screen. (I don't think the matte screen solves all problems. :P )

I'm using CBL 1.3 with whatever Java's there. (CBL uses Java?)

But my clean-install SL + TC-recovered CBL files are okay...as far as I know.

[Dolphbucs]

OK here are the only things I can think of we may have done differently:

1) I installed Rosetta as an option during installation

2) I installed QT 7 as an Option during installation

3 ) I removed all but French and Spanish as optional languages

4) I have a bootcamp partition on my HD

None of these should make a difference, but there has to be something different in our configurations for yours to run CBL correctly while mine will not.

[Dolphbucs]

I also installed the additional fonts and X11

[Fred Duck]

I also have Rosetta, QT7, the fonts, X11, and a Boot Camp partition.

I guess the only thing that's different was the languages.