Re: MacOS X front end patch available
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- Subject: [mg38918] Re: MacOS X front end patch available
- From: shollis at armstrong.edu (Selwyn Hollis)
- Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2003 00:33:04 -0500 (EST)
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- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
John, Why is this patch specifically for Mathematica 4.2? Or does it patch 4.1 as well? Version 4.1 has (at least) the same copy/paste problem. --- Selwyn Hollis John Fultz <jfultz at wolfram.com> wrote in message news:<avm4dm$n9c$1 at smc.vnet.net>... > 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.