[PD] Crash in Leopard

[marius schebella]

Hi,
it seems OS 10.5 does not like everything that is called "help" or 
"Help" in the menubar, which causes Pd to crash.
In pd.tk I replaced all mbar.help with mbar.help2 and -label "Help" with 
-label "Help!" and it works.
This must be a bug in OS X 10.5, since the above should not be 
necessary. it's a bad hack... maybe there is a better solution.
marius.


Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
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> Please file a bug report in the tracker:
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> .hc
> 
> On Nov 4, 2007, at 1:56 PM, marius schebella wrote:
> 
>> hey,
>> apple was so nice to send me a 10.5 install dvd, and I can confirm that
>> pd-extended crashes when I want to open the help menu. (pd-vanilla
>> 0.40-2 works fine, hehe...)
>> all pd-e versions that I tested crashed (0.39.3, 0.40.3 from 08/31 and
>> even the one from oct26!)
>> marius.
>>
>>
>> Luke Iannini (pd) wrote:
>>> Well, I can't actually type anything in the new Help "Search" box (the
>>> cursor blinks but no text appears), but the menu entries below all 
>>> work as
>>> they always have.
>>> Cheers
>>> Luke
>>>
>>> On 11/3/07, Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at eds.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> And the help menu stuff works fine?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> .hc
>>>>
>>>> On Nov 3, 2007, at 2:18 AM, Luke Iannini (pd) wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Well, good news - I only had the crash when running an autobuild (pde
>>>> 0.40.3) from September.  I'm using October 26th's now and the crash no
>>>> longer occurs.
>>>>
>>>> Luke
>>>>
>>>> On 11/2/07, Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at eds.org> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> If you feel like testing what in particular is causing the bug, you
>>>>> could try commenting out things in the pd.tk:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Pd.app/Contents/Resources/bin/pd.tk
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> It's just a text file. Check around line 614,  $mbar.help is the help
>>>>> menu for any patch.  The help menu for the Pd window is called 
>>>>> .mbar.help,
>>>>> that comes earlier in the file.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I don't have access to a 10.5 machine, so I won't be able to try
>>>>> anything.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> .hc
>>>>>
>>>>> On Nov 1, 2007, at 5:26 PM, Luke Iannini (pd) wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hallo, I can confirm this...Must have something to do with Leopard's
>>>>> wacky new searchable menus feature, which is built in to the Help 
>>>>> menu.
>>>>>
>>>>> On 11/1/07, Luiz Naveda <lab.naveda at gmail.com > wrote:
>>>>>> Hallo list!
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I've just installed latest PD-extended in Macbook OSX 10.5 Leopard.
>>>>>> When I try to click on the help menu, it crashes. I 've experimented
>>>>>> the same problem a couple of years ago in other macs. Anybody in the
>>>>>> same situation?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Best
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Luiz
>>>>>>
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