As you know we are in the process of making a decision on whether to upgrade the Mac Measurement Applications to run on the newly released Mac OS X 10.7. Until then, we have decided to offer Windows licenses for those customers who have already purchased Mac licenses and need a way to run the tools on a Mac. The idea is that you can use Parallels or another similar program which would allow you to run the Windows Measurement Applications on a Mac. This is based on a suggestion from one of our customers.

So if you have already bought (a) Mac license(s) for one of our screen measurement applications (Screen Calipers, Screen Protractor and Screen Compass) and if you require to run the associated Windows application using Parallels or a similar program then please let us know using the following URL:
http://www.iconico.com/connect/feedback.aspx
and we will issue you the Windows serial number(s).

Sad to learn that although we were all aware of the impending release of Mac OSX Lion that nothing had been done to advance the "tools of the trade"!!

Sorry,
That is not a realy good idea. A lot of customers do not run paralles or similar programs. Therefor I am very unhappy.
From my point of view that is a realy poor advice to run Screen Caliper via Windos on a MAC.

Regards
Herb

Agreed. That is way too complicated to be a "solution". Not owning Windows, I'd have to obtain that too; in fact, I'd have to upgrade Parallels, which is several upgrades out of date.  Since Iconico isn't helping, do any of you have alternatives you can suggest?

Agreed.... I'm bummed. I've used Screen Calipers for years as was disappointed to see that they no longer work on Lion.

I've tried Parallels and VMWare Fusion and scrapped them both. I bought a Win 7 machine that I hate only to run Win programs.

Please develop a version of Screen Calipers that will run on Lion... We'll pay, but gitter done.

Agreed.... I'm bummed. I've used Screen Calipers for years as was disappointed to see that they no longer work on Lion.

I've tried Parallels and VMWare Fusion and scrapped them both. I bought a Win 7 machine that I hate only to run Win programs.

Please develop a version of Screen Calipers that will run on Lion... We'll pay, but gitter done.

Having a Mac virtualization program (like VMware Fusion, Parallels, or VirtualBox) will not necessarily help you use Screen Calipers on your Mac. For example, I have VMware Fusion, but I don't run it in "Unity mode" (what Parallels calls "Coherence mode") as I find it confusing and somewhat unreliable. In either of the other two modes (Full Screen or Single Window), a screen ruler would be confined to the Windows window and not available in the Mac part of the desktop -- in other words, only available to measure stuff within the Windows virtual environment.

This is not really a solution, sadly.

This is not a solution for our application. 

That is really no solution for those of us who have paid for both licences for Screen Measurement pack for both Mac and PC.

Whats more you are still advertising it as a solution for OSX 10.3+ 

It's really a shame that I can no longer use this after paying for it and supporting future dev. I finally was forced to make the decision to move on to another product because I flat out refuse to run windows for a simple screen app because the developers won't provide a proper upgrade. I very much feel cheated here.

Another "me too" vote for Lion redevelopment. I've been trying out several of the "bigger" alternatives (i.e. those which are easy to find via Google or App Store), and Screen Callipers is **still** the best implementation of this idea, by far. You nailed the interface - the mouse interactions all make sense, the visual cues & feedback are just what you need and the keyboard shortcuts are coherent and offer really useful functionality. None of the other measurement tools are so easy to use yet unobtrusive. 

You posted back in July (about 7 months ago) that you were making a decision on support for Lion.  Evidently, Congress can make decisions faster that Iconico.  What gives?  Are you or are you not going to provide all of your faithful users with a version that can run under Lion natively?

You offered us the "Windows" work around as if Windows was the only game in town.  Apple, for your information, is now worth more than Microsoft and Google COMBINED.  I think it's time that Iconico got off their proverbial back side and let their customers know if we will be supported or left hanging.

In the past I would tell almost every design professional I knew to get this app, but sorry guys you lost a vocal and loyal customer....

For all of you like me that are fed up of waiting for this to be available for Lion, go look at the mac app store. There are a number of comparable apps, all much cheaper than Screen Calipers. The most expensive is only $9.99, 1/3rd the price of SC. I really liked this app, but life goes on and at the end of the day you just gotta get the work done!

Is anyone at Iconico reading this thread?