I am having way too hard of a time trying to get the Arduino IDE working. I've downloaded everything, Ive installed the usb drivers, Ive ran the macosxsetup command thing, but when I try and run it, it just kind of shows up in the dock and then disapears. I know this shouldn't be that hard to do. Is there somewhere that I should be moving things to or not moving things to? Its getting really frustrating and making me feel like I dont know what Im doing. If someone could tell help Id really appreciate it. Thanks.
What version of Mac OS X are you running? Check the console log (Applications > Utilities > Console) for errors. If you see something about Unsupported Major.Minor version, it's because you don't have a recent enough version of Java. If you're on Tiger (10.4), run Software Update to upgrade to the latest Java version. If you're on an earlier OS, you'll probably need to download Arduino 0004 instead, as Arduino 0005 was mistakenly compiled to require a very recent Java to run. I'll try to post an Arduino 0006 soon that fixes the problem.
Im running OSX 10.4.2. I was getting that message but even though I tried updating Java its giving me the same message. I dont understand why its still not working.
Jake,
First, might I suggest you update to 10.4.7. It works for me on two different computers. Albeit, both are G5's. One is a dual 2.0 and the other is a Quad 2.5.
if the upgrade doesn't work. it might be a conflict with the actual hardware. How about posting what configuration you have.
best,
ñeurascenic
Even if you installed the latest version of Java, Arduino might not be using it. Try editing the application configuration file that comes with Arduino and set the minimum version to 1.5. Right-click (Control-click) on the Arduino.app file and select "Show package contents". Open the Contents folder and edit the Info.plist file. There's a JVMVersion key; change the String to 1.5+ instead of 1.4+. Save the file and try to run Arduino again.
Sorry for the long delay. I had decided to just use version 0004 since that worked fine, but after doing what mellis just suggested 0005 works fine. Thanks for the help.