robhawleyastro wrote:Will SEM be updated for Catalina?
In short no. Or else it will have to be a completely new code base, meaning it will take years. Moreover the same is true for Lunar Eclipse Maestro and Mercury Venus Transit Maestro.
Unfortunately Mojave is end of the road, in Catalina Apple has decided to remove most of the frameworks I've been using for the past 15 years. Years ago Apple said that those frameworks would be ported to 64-bit, the fact is I've heard that the work has been completed, and then later down the road Apple overturned its own decision leaving us in the ditch!
robhawleyastro wrote:I understand the current version will not work, but are you rebuilding as a 64-bit app?
My source code is mostly 64-bit compatible, yet the user interface is not and rebuilding that part is extremely complex. Then the rest of the code will need a rewrite as well, we're talking of about a million lines of code, so all this is time consuming. Plus stabilizing and testing everything again will also take time.
For the moment the immediate solutions are:
1) Don't upgrade past Mojave,
2) Run Mojave or any older OS version inside a virtual machine if you need to upgrade to Catalina or newer OSes.
There is always a possibility I'll rewrite everything, yet given my limited resources in the coming years this is unlikely given the minimal support I've received over the years.
Thanks for your support.