On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 18:06:25 -0800 (Pacific Standard Time) BrenBarn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
B> Most importantly, virtually none of the items on the Edit menu B> work -- clicking on the menu options simply has no effect. Sorry, this is a stupid bug which I introducedl iterally minutes before making the snapshot. It was fixed the next day but I didn't make a new snapshot as I hope to make a new release instead a.s.a.p. B> In addition, clicking on the "Help" option crashed the program. You're not going to believe me but it's a feature :-/ I needed a way to test whether crash report generation works so I inserted a crash in the help menu command to be able to test it quickly. I didn't intend to leave it in the released version, of course, sorry for that. B> Incidentally, the way that the help functions even when it is working B> is annoying -- it seems to somehow be "linked" to the main Mahogany B> window. Attempting to task-switch to Mahogany instead task-switches B> to the help window. It would be preferable if the help window were B> entirely separate from the Mahogany window. It definitely shouldn't be modal, I'll fix this. B> In addition, the help has no index, which makes it extremely difficult B> to locate information. Someone just has to create the index but I'm afraid I simply don't have time to do it. B> I have a suspicion that these problems are related to the "install" B> mechanism for the win32 snapshop -- that is, I believe that simply B> copying the M.EXE file into the install directory is causing the B> executable to become out of sync with the rest of the program settings. No, there is really (intentionally) almost nothing done during the installation. B> I attempted to uninstall Mahogany and reinstall the 0.65 release B> to get back to a working version. However, the uninstaller does not B> completely uninstall the program from the registry. After reinstalling, I B> was unable to run Mahogany; it popped up a dialog box saying "the B> previous installed version was newer than this version". It shouldn't B> know anything about any "previously installed" version, because I B> uninstalled that. I had to manually go into the registry and delete the B> Mahogany-related keys. The uninstaller needs to completely uninstall B> the program. Yes, I'll fix this. Thanks, VZ ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials. Become an expert in LINUX or just sharpen your skills. Sign up for IBM's Free Linux Tutorials. Learn everything from the bash shell to sys admin. Click now! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1278&alloc_id=3371&op=click _______________________________________________ Mahogany-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mahogany-users
