Interesting Report

[Joe Lewis Wilkins]

Hi Richard,

Thanks for your comments.

I don't even know what the Profile Manager is. The stack with which  
I've had problems was created in Rev from scratch, though many of the  
elements used were originally resources created with ResEdit from a  
variety of sources. A lot of copy and pasting from other Mac apps with  
the scripts written in transcript. The converted HC stacks haven't  
appeared to have any particular problems such as this.

Joe Wilkins

On Apr 24, 2008, at 10:43 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote:

> Joe Lewis Wilkins wrote:
>> I had created a Windows Standalone of my Coloring Book stack.   
>> Initially I took a look at the results using VMWare's Fusion and  
>> XP  Professional. Much to my dissatisfaction, though it appeared to  
>> "run"  satisfactorily, several items were missing. The OSX version  
>> worked as  expected - mostly. The Windows' version lacked many of  
>> the text fields  to varying degrees of "lackness" (for you  
>> Richmond!). Also, the Menus  didn't show up, though most of the  
>> command keys associated with the  menu items did work as expected.  
>> Really pretty strange. This was all  done under Tiger. After  
>> installing Leopard, I then I tried running the  Coloring Book using  
>> Boot Camp with XP. Pretty much the same appearance  results. Then,  
>> I installed a new VMWare Fusion, setting it up to use  the already  
>> installed  Boot Camp partition and XP as the virtual  machine.  
>> Suddenly, when I ran the Coloring Book application, the  missing  
>> Text fields appeared and functioned as designed and the menus  were  
>> at the top as expected with their command keys also working.
>
> There must be something else going on.  I make and test apps for  
> Leopard, Tiger, XP, and Vista pretty much weekly, and have never  
> seen fields disappear on some OSes but not others.
>
> Are you using the Profile Manager?  I wonder if perhaps some of  
> those settings may be responsible for objects changing the  
> visibility on different platforms.
>
> -- 
> Richard Gaskin
> Managing Editor, revJournal
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