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====== Installing Blocks on MacOS ====== | ====== Installing Blocks on MacOS ====== | ||
- | Recent versions of MacOS have added safety measures making it harder to install programs downloaded by other means than from Apple's app store. Follow these instructions to download | + | * For Apple Silicon based Macs, download |
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- | ===== Prerequisites ===== | + | * Double-click the downloaded disk image file to open it. |
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- | * Download | + | |
* Drag the “PIXILAB Blocks” application to your Applications folder, but do not start it just yet. | * Drag the “PIXILAB Blocks” application to your Applications folder, but do not start it just yet. | ||
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===== Installing the license key software ===== | ===== Installing the license key software ===== | ||
- | Double-click the CmInstall.pkg file. | + | Double-click the CmInstall.pkg file and follow |
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- | MacOS may show a " | + | |
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- | If so, click "Open Security Preferences" | + | |
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- | Once installation is complete, you must restart your computer. | + | |
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- | ===== Starting Blocks for the First Time ===== | + | |
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- | Connect the license key. Then locate the “PIXILAB Blocks” application in your Applications folder and click it while holding down the Control key to open the context menu. Select Open on this menu. | + | |
- | {{ : | + | Once installation is complete, you may need to restart your computer. |
- | If this is the first time you start blocks since you downloaded it, a warning message will be shown. | + | ===== Installing Google Chrome or Chromium ===== |
- | {{ : | + | Some functions in Blocks require Google Chrome (or its open-source Chromium sibling) to be installed on the computer you use as your Blocks server. Notably, the generation of thumbnails for some block types will fail if not available. So before starting Blocks, install either of these web browsers into your Applications folder. |
- | Click the " | + | :!: **NOTE:** You don't need to use Chrome/ |
- | If the license key isn’t recognized, open the CodeMeter application found in your Applications folder and choose Refresh on the View menu, making the license key appear in the list. | ||
- | {{ : | + | =====Starting Blocks===== |
- | Once Blocks has started, click the “Admin” button in the PIXILAB Blocks window to open a web browser to access Blocks. The default user name is admin and the password is pixi. | + | Connect the USB license key or apply any cloud-based license credentials. Then locate the “PIXILAB Blocks” application in your Applications folder and double-click it. Once Blocks has started, click the “Admin” button in the //PIXILAB Blocks// window to open a web browser to access Blocks. The default user name is //admin// and the password is //pixi//. |
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