Problems with histocat on M1 Mac, manual for histocat++

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Hello, I am currently using a MacBook Pro M1 (2020) and was hoping to be able to use HistoCAT. Unfortunately the normal HistoCAT for Mac (1.761) doesn't work (the installer always shuts down, as mentioned in another issue). I then installed a VirtualMachine (parallels) with windows 11 on it. Unfortunately windows only offers windows 11 for arm computers, they used to offer windows 10 but its no longer available. I tried every version available for windows, and here comes my issue: They install just fine, and I am able tu run the program. But when I klick on "load" in the top right corner, to load my samples, a error sound occurs, but no error window shows up. No explorer window opens, so I am not able to load my samples into histoCAT. I tried to install histoCAT on a VM running Debian, but I was not able to install it. Unfortunately there is no installation guide, and as described in another issue, I am not the only one struggling with it. The last option for me would be histoCAT++ (by Raul Catena), which installs and runs fine on my M1 Mac, but I was not able to find a manual anywhere. I am able to drag and drop files into there. Mcd files work just fine, so I can use histoCAT++ as an alternative to the MCD viewer. But when I try to add TIFF files, as the normal output of the ImcSegmentationPipeline would be, they only show up, but I can not load them. When I select and do a right click on them the option "load" appears, but unfortunately nothing happens after clicking on it. I think a manual would really help and maybe even solve my issues completely!! Does one exist?

I just wanted to describe the issues I was having with my M1 Mac. I appreciate the ImcSegmentationPipeline a lot, and thank you for your great work. I just wanted to draw attention to the current situation concerning the Mac M1 situation, as there may be people out there, who may know a solution/ workaround to one of the above described problems.

I would appreciate any kind of advice.

Best, Adrian