{"id":352,"date":"2010-06-02T11:02:31","date_gmt":"2010-06-02T15:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sofastatistics.com\/blog\/?p=352"},"modified":"2010-06-02T19:19:56","modified_gmt":"2010-06-02T23:19:56","slug":"0-9-10-has-mac-os-x-package","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sofastatistics.com\/blog\/0-9-10-has-mac-os-x-package\/","title":{"rendered":"0.9.10 has Mac OS X Package"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SOFA Statistics has been packaged for Mac OS X (Leopard and Snow Leopard).  It only seems right that an application emphasising ease-of-use and beautiful output should be available for Apple users.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_353\" style=\"width: 440px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sofastatistics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/sofa_on_mac_smaller.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-353\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sofastatistics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/sofa_on_mac_smaller.gif\" alt=\"SOFA Statistics on OS X\" title=\"SOFA Statistics on OS X\" width=\"430\" height=\"323\" class=\"size-full wp-image-353\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sofastatistics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/sofa_on_mac_smaller.gif 430w, http:\/\/www.sofastatistics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/sofa_on_mac_smaller-300x225.gif 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 430px) 100vw, 430px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-353\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">SOFA Statistics on OS X<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The installer is supplied as a mpkg (metapackage) file inside a disk image.  Open the mpkg to install.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_359\" style=\"width: 440px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sofastatistics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/sofa_mac_installer.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-359\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sofastatistics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/sofa_mac_installer.jpg\" alt=\"SOFA mac installer\" title=\"SOFA mac installer\" width=\"430\" height=\"427\" class=\"size-full wp-image-359\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sofastatistics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/sofa_mac_installer.jpg 430w, http:\/\/www.sofastatistics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/sofa_mac_installer-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.sofastatistics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/sofa_mac_installer-300x297.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 430px) 100vw, 430px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-359\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">SOFA mac installer<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The same application now works much the same on Windows XP, Vista, and Windows 7,  Ubuntu\/Linux Mint, and Mac OS X Leopard and Snow Leopard.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_360\" style=\"width: 440px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sofastatistics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/sofa_controls_on_mac.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sofastatistics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/sofa_controls_on_mac.gif\" alt=\"SOFA controls on mac\" title=\"SOFA controls on mac\" width=\"430\" height=\"167\" class=\"size-full wp-image-360\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sofastatistics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/sofa_controls_on_mac.gif 430w, http:\/\/www.sofastatistics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/sofa_controls_on_mac-300x116.gif 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 430px) 100vw, 430px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-360\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">SOFA controls on mac<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Even if you are not a Mac user, there are a few extras in the new version:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>MySQL plugin now works with older versions of MySQL e.g. 4.1.<\/li>\n<li>MySQL now allows port details e.g. for remote connections.<\/li>\n<li>All database plugins allow empty default database or table configuration details (in which case they&#8217;ll use the first).<\/li>\n<li>Easier to fill in connection details in project. Tooltips (with examples) have been added to database configuration controls to make it more clear what is required from the user.<\/li>\n<li>Better placement of dialogs on smaller screens so nothing off-screen.<\/li>\n<li>Problems with connection details raise useful message for users.<\/li>\n<li>SOFA gives useful message if the SOFA application path is not found because of an unexpected folder name e.g. &#8216;sofa stats&#8217; rather than &#8216;sofa&#8217;. The Windows installer was also upgraded to give better guidance.<\/li>\n<li>Better error messages if anything goes wrong with loading of initial images when starting SOFA.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There are also a few bug fixes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Fixed bug in calculation of total frequency across rows so that missing values are excluded.<\/li>\n<li>Background images for tables now available in Ubuntu install.<\/li>\n<li>Fixed some minor background bugs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You can download version 0.9.10 now: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sofastatistics.com\/downloads.php\">SOFA downloads<\/a><\/p>\n<p>NB 0.9.10 (zero point nine point ten) is newer than 0.9.9.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SOFA Statistics has been packaged for Mac OS X (Leopard and Snow Leopard). It only seems right that an application emphasising ease-of-use and beautiful output should be available for Apple users. The installer is supplied as a mpkg (metapackage) file inside a disk image. Open the mpkg to install. The same application now works much [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sofastatistics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sofastatistics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sofastatistics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sofastatistics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sofastatistics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.sofastatistics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":355,"href":"http:\/\/www.sofastatistics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352\/revisions\/355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sofastatistics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sofastatistics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sofastatistics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}