OS X 10.4 vs. 10.3 incompatibility

[Mark Talluto]

On Aug 2, 2005, at 2:55 PM, John Vokey wrote:

> I have encountered a strange system incompatibility.  Stacks that  
> ran/run fine under Mac OS X 10.3.x, produce the following peculiar  
> behaviour under 10.4.2 (whether using the MC or RR IDE).  I have a  
> slider in a group that also contains a default (throbbing) button,  
> which is to be clicked when the slider is in the position the user  
> wants.  All is fine under 10.3.x (i.e., the button throbs and the  
> slider tracks the mouse as the user slides it back and forth);  
> under 10.4.2, the button s-l-o-w-l-y throbs (i.e., you can see each  
> step of the throb animation), and the slider no longer keeps up  
> with the mouse (i.e., it lags by a lot).  It is like the whole  
> system has been slowed down by a factor of 2 or 3 (i.e., 100 or a  
> 1000-fold).  Yet, other default buttons throb correctly.  (I have  
> no other sliders in these stacks).  It is clearly not my code  
> (indeed, I have used this group successfully since at least MC 2.2,  
> and probably before, and on all other versions of OS X).
>
> I receive the list in digest mode, so please respond directly to me  
> if you have any insights.
>
>

I noticed this problem as well.  I just saved the script and made a  
new slider with the old script.  This solved the problem.


Mark Talluto
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