Re:MacOS X front end patch available
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- Subject: [mg38793] Re:[mg38772] MacOS X front end patch available
- From: williams at vt.edu (Michael Williams)
- Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2003 06:17:48 -0500 (EST)
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Thanks John! This knocked out just about all of my ui problems with Mathematica. The ones listed in your note and others. Believe it or not, this will have a *big* impact on my productivity. Michael Williams Blacksburg, Va At 4:33 AM -0500 1/10/03, John Fultz wrote: >A few weeks ago, I announced that Wolfram Research was working on a patch >for the Mathematica MacOS X user interface to fix several new problems >that have appeared since MacOS X 10.2 began shipping. That patch is now >freely available to all registered users of Mathematica 4.2 for MacOS X. > >This patch is particularly important for anybody who's running MacOS X >10.2, as most of the problems fixed are problems which appear only when >running under that version of the operating system. I've included a list >of the problems we've fixed at the end of this email. > >If you have Mathematica 4.2 for MacOS X and would like the patch, you >should email Wolfram Research Technical Support at > > support at wolfram.com > >You should give them the license number for your copy of Mathematica and >ask for the "MacOS X Mathematica 4.2 patch". > >Sincerely, > >John Fultz >jfultz at wolfram.com >User Interface Group >Wolfram Research, Inc. > > > >10.2-specific issues >----------------- >* Mathematica can suddenly quit when the dock changes sizes (such as when >minimizing/restoring windows, or opening/closing applications. > >* Copying from some applications and pasting into Mathematica prepends a >garbage character to the pasted text. > >* Opening the help browser or option inspector should place the default >focus in the lookup field, but was not. > >* Certain combinations of actions could disable the print command. > >* Hide/Show Toolbar button was inappropriately appearing in palette >windows. > > >General issues >------------- >* Newly opened palettes open up behind currently open palettes. > >* Sometimes, if you copy multiple cells, then paste them, you lose the >cell structure. This problem can be made much worse if certain >applications which manipulate the clipboard are concurrently running on >the system.
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- MacOS X front end patch available
- From: John Fultz <jfultz@wolfram.com>
- MacOS X front end patch available