CT Broken on Mac OS X?

redct · Post by **redct** » Sat Aug 30, 2008 4:30 pm

I'm a big fan of MapTool (pretty much the only D&D tool besides OpenRPG that works on the Mac), but I've never gotten CharTool to work.

When you start it up, it starts and then crashes with

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Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: Bad version number in .class file
	at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method)
	at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:675)
	at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:124)
	at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(URLClassLoader.java:260)
	at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$100(URLClassLoader.java:56)
	at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:195)
	at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
	at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:188)
	at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:316)
	at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:280)
	at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:251)
	at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(ClassLoader.java:374)

This has happened with every single build I've ever tried.

jay · Post by **jay** » Sat Aug 30, 2008 5:13 pm

CT & IT require Java 6. If you have the proper version of the Mac OS then you can get that from Apple. If not, then as far as I know there isn't a Java 6 version available that works. Instructions on how to set the tools on Mac are here: http://forums.rptools.net/viewtopic.php ... highlight=

Azhrei · Post by **Azhrei** » Sun Aug 31, 2008 6:21 pm

There is a project called SoyLatte which provides Java 6 for Mac OS X.4 (Tiger), but I haven't personally tried it. Word is that it works well for many things.

Have any of the Mac users here tried SoyLatte for the RPTools programs?

redct · Post by **redct** » Mon Sep 01, 2008 10:53 am

Success!

After following Craig's instructions (http://forums.rptools.net/viewtopic.php?t=4450&start=0#50964) I was able to get CharTool to start.