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MacOS X front end patch available

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• Subject: [mg38772] MacOS X front end patch available
• From: John Fultz <jfultz at wolfram.com>
• Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2003 04:33:32 -0500 (EST)
• Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

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
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* 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
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* 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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