DING problems
My wife has been a fan of DING for a few years; she ran it all the time on a PowerPC based iMac.
Last year we got her a Macbook; DING has not run since then but I have ignored the problem.
Last night I installed Leopard hoping that this problem would go away. It hasn't & we get the same error message you do "DING! engine failed to initialize, shutting program down".
I have uninstalled DING etc, reloaded it with no luck - the same problem.
I don't believe that a bad download is the issue.
Just for kicks, I also installed it on my PowerPC G5 system and it ran fine.
So I called the SWA main number since they have no tech support listed.
After being route around customer relations etc, I had to give up - tech support from people who want to book flights is surreal. And SWA does not have an email support site so customers are left to grapple on their own
But they did mention security, firewalls etc. I made sure that my wife's Macbook is highly insecure; it will not block anything downloaded. I don't think that's the issue
The creation date of DING is June 23, 2006 and predates (I think) the Intel based Macs.
I'm at a loss as how to fix this.
SWA releasing software that they wont support is unethical.
If no answers develop on this forum, I will send a letter to SWA and ask them to query the development team which I presume is a third party.
So no help but sympathy for a shared experience.