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Re: Appearance in MacOS 8.5

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  • Subject: [mg16174] Re: Appearance in MacOS 8.5
  • From: "Joshua A. Solomon" <j.solomon at ucl.ac.uk>
  • Date: Tue, 2 Mar 1999 01:13:17 -0500
  • Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

>From: Selwyn Hollis <shollis at peachnet.campuscwix.net>
>To: "Joshua A. Solomon" <j.solomon at ucl.ac.uk>
>Cc: comp-soft-sys-math-mathematica at moderators.uu.net,
>Date: Sat, Feb 27, 1999, 7:01 pm
>

>> > "Joshua A. Solomon" wrote:
>> >
>> >> The webpage
>> >> http://www.wolfram.com/support/Systems/Macintosh/FE/AppearancePatch.html
>> >> describes a bug in MacOS that affects Mathematica.
>> >> I first encountered this bug when I upgraded to MacOS 8.0.
>> >> The aforementioned webpage also describes a remedy for this bug:
>> >> a patch for the Appearance Extension.
>> >> When I upgraded to MacOS 8.5, the Appearance Extension
>> >> disappeared from my Extensions folder and the bug returned.
>> >> I downloaded the patch again from Wolfram's website, along
>> >> with the extension. I placed the extension in the Extensions
>> >> folder, applied the patch and restarted my Mac. The bug is still there.
>> >
> OK, I've done a little research, and the deal is that no OS 8.5 Appearance
> Extension exists, since the code is incorporated into the system. Apparently
> certain rogue application installers put an Appearance Extension into the
> Extensions folder, which is why there was one in mine. Somehow I doubt that
> having the Appearance Extension in there causes any problems, but you never
> know... The bottom line is that if there is still a problem, it's with the
> system itself, and the statement on Wolfram's web site is misleading at best.
> I have had problems with out-of-whack type spacing on screen, similar to but
not
> as severe as with OS 8.1. Resizing the window or otherwise causing the text to
> be re-rendered always corrects it, temporarily. With the unpatched Appearance
> Extension in OS 8.1, often it was necessary to restart.

Thank you for your quick reply.
FWIW, resizing the window does not correct the problem on my machine.
I need to quit and re-launch Mathematica.

js
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