Mac binary for the Swing UI Wallet

Zcash Apps
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Hi,

I put together a binary OSX bundle of @vaklinov 's UI wallet. First make sure you have ZCash installed on your Mac (instructions by @anon47418038 here Mac binaries and User Guide - #19 by zab ) . Then go to Release Signed OSX bundle with Splash Screen · zlatinb/zcash-swing-wallet-ui · GitHub and grab the dmg.

This should work even if you don’t have Java. if you built ZCash from source, place zcashd and zcash-cli in “/usr/local/bin”.

New in this release

  • If ZCash is not running it will start it
  • It is signed, so there should be no warnings
  • It is a .dmg

Let me know if anything doesn’t work
zab

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I’ll be posting a link to a dmg of my zcash port here shortly, sometime this weekend. still struggling with getting a dock icon for zcash without doing an entire app in Xcode (hence my tweet the other night about googling Applescript sigh)

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ETH Wallet 'S UI is better than that. is it Zcash Official UI?
It’s 80’s style…

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It’s not official at all, but it’s the only one that exists right now.

Did you get it to run or did you just look at the screenshot on github?

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yes, I look that on github。 It’s make me be disappointed。Interface layout and user experience are very poor.
Did Zcash official willing to spend ZEC to design it? I think most people works must better than now version。

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In 2016, in the rigorous financial field. some like forum have rubish text by Koreanor Zecwallet user interface is as old as of 80s. I think that the development of zcash is not very good.

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Screenshot
Main Window870×455 93.7 KB

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If you scroll down the github page it says:

At the present time this project is non-commercial in nature and developed by volunteers.

Feel free to contribute your UI design skills to make the wallet look the way you like it.

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I just downloaded it and gave it a whirl, worked great!

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I placed the file in my zcash/src directory but am still getting the error message that the app needs to be in the same folder as zcashd & zcash-cli.

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My zcash directory is in my user directory. Is the binary expecting this or looking for zcash located in the hard drive root.

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Right, at the moment the app assumes that you have followed the binary installation instructions from @anon47418038 and will not work if you built from source.

A quick hack around this is to create a /usr/bin folder and put zcashd and zcash-cli there (or symlinks).

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Once @anon47418038 finalizes his Mac package I’ll tweak the app to look under /Applications/ZCash

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My binary has it in /usr/local/bin

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Here is the list of locations the app checks:

	final String dirs[] = new String[]
	{
		"/usr/bin/", // Typical Ubuntu
		"/bin/",
		"/usr/local/bin/",
		"/usr/local/zcash/bin/",
		"/usr/lib/zcash/bin/",
		"/opt/local/bin/",
		"/opt/local/zcash/bin/",
		"/opt/zcash/bin/"
	};
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You can use ‘pwd’ in the terminal to find the location of the current folder. Then use that to send commands to the zcashd.

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The java code already does that, however once bundled ‘pwd’ will return …/ZCashSwingWalletUI.app/Contents/MacOS/ because that’s where the binary launching java is located.

Ultimately I’d like to merge the UI and ZCash into a single app bundle but that’s way down the line

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Bump for the new release Release Signed OSX bundle with Splash Screen · zlatinb/zcash-swing-wallet-ui · GitHub

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swing wallet is awesome, too bad I dont have a mac to try this out

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its java, it works on mac, linux and windows