Re: Re: MacOS X front end patch available
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- Subject: [mg38957] Re: [mg38918] Re: MacOS X front end patch available
- From: Selwyn Hollis <selwynh at earthlink.net>
- Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2003 07:40:09 -0500 (EST)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
Since I don't really expect the "right" answer here, let me pose the
situation as it looks from here:
I have to pay for an upgrade in order to use a patch to fix a bug.
Way to go!
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Selwyn Hollis
On Sunday, January 19, 2003, at 12:33 AM, Selwyn Hollis wrote:
> 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.
>