An Esurient Trollop

It seems that the developers at Flagship Industries have finally posted a fix to their Ventrilo client for Mac OS X 10.5, Leopard. You know, the bug fix that takes all of 5-minutes to correct. However, they only fixed the problem in the main window and nowhere else.

Here’s what they had to say:

It is intended to solve the user list window being empty after connecting when running OSX 10.5. This is the only change. The same problem also occurred in a few other windows as well.

If you are not running OSX 10.5 then don’t waste your time downloading it as there is no advantage.

This is an interim update until we release the next major upgrade here soon.

FYI,
Flag

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Flagship Industries, Inc.
www.ventrilo.com

Certainly doesn’t sound like he was very happy about making this fix. In any case, if you would like to download their new version, you can find it here.

Otherwise, if you want the fully patched version, you can still access it from my site.

Anyhow, it seems that Ventrilo has decided to bow to the pressure of people from the Mac community, such as myself. I suppose they got tired of deleting all mine and related thread on how to fix this problem in 10 fricking minutes!Ventrilo had this to say:

There is a known issue with the Ventrilo Mac client 2.3.2.Prototype.15 that prevents the main user list window from displaying the channels and connected users.

While we have this fixed in our soon to be released major upgrade we did not perform the changes to the 2.3 series of programs only because we had hoped to release the major upgrade before Apple was able to release 10.5. Sadly this did not happen due to a few problems found during the beta testing.

While the delay would only have been a few weeks this seems to be a problem for some people. *sigh*

I will see about producing an proto.16 that fixes this problem, but not until I have an official copy of 10.5 in my hands to test with. Assuming BestBuy has it on their shelves tonight.

Any and all (or should I say more) hateful and mean spirited posts from the Mac community on this subject will be promptly deleted. If you can’t control your temper then don’t even bother posting.

Now I wonder how many years it’ll take them to get this build out. >:D

UPDATE: It seems that the developer at Ventrilo decided that this post sounded just a tad too bitter and decided to delete it. Luckily I quoted him for posterity!

As I have promised upon the release of Mac OS X 10.5, here is a patched version of Ventrilo for all us Mac users to download and enjoy!

This version actually works and took me all of 10-minutes to fix. I have posted instructions for the Ventrilo developers in the past on how to fix this problem, but instead they prefer to threaten me with legal action.

Download: <Link Removed>

EDIT: You should probably download and install Ventrilo first, as I am unsure as to whether it installs anything to other locations on the drive.

Simply delete the original install and move my patched version over to the applications folder afterwards.

Enjoy!

Well now, this bug has existed with Ventrilo for over a year on OS X 10.5. But guess what? I fixed it! Yes, I spent about an hour tooling around with the package contents of Ventrilo.app and found main.nib. I then opened this file in Interface Builder (part of Xcode) and did a little trial and error editing. Throughout this process I discovered the problem, fixed it and have tested the results. Everything works fine. I didn’t go much deeper than the main channel list, but I am sure this problem exists in other spots within the application. However, with the problem identified, it should be rather simple to fix in the future. I’m surprised that one of Ventrilo’s valuable developers couldn’t spare the 5 or 10 minutes needed to fix this problem… That is, spare 5 or 10-minutes over the past bloody year in which this bug has been known on Leopard Beta. In any case, I offer the solution to everyone!

Since the Ventrilo.app file that you install is read only, you will need to copy the application to a different directory. On the copy, right click on the application and select “Show package contents”. Navigate to the English.lprog folder and replace the main.nib file with the one I have linked above. Enjoy being able to run Ventrilo on OS X 10.5 guys!

UPDATE: If you are looking for the patched version of Ventrilo, see this post.

UPDATE #2: A person, who’s comment I lost, posted a simple shell script on how to make the change in all offending portions of the program.

su root **You will need password to your machine**
cd /Applications/Ventrilo.app/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/main.nib
cp objects.xib objects.xib.old
cat objects.xib | sed 's/rowHeight">0</rowHeight">20</g' > objects.xib.new
rm objects.xib
cp objects.xib.new objects.xib

Restart Ventrilo!