Mac stacks look like Windows

[Mark Waddingham]

Hi Paul,

> When I open a stack that has been automatically converted to the  
> new file format by Rev 2.7, with a new standalone (created with Rev  
> 2.7) I get the Windows appearance (blue hilights on buttons, raised  
> scroll bars, etc.). None of these stacks has ever been on a Windows  
> computer. I have no Windows standalones. I don't run Windows. This  
> has never happened before.

It appears that your standalones are not being created with the  
necessary 'theme support' files that provide the OS X native look and  
feel - and what you are witnessing is the emulated MacOS 9 look and  
feel.

(The other alternative is that somehow your look and feel is being  
set to Windows 95 - to see which it is, use the 'View -> Look and  
Feel' menu in Revolution to switch look and feels until you find the  
one that matches your standalone)

I have just run some tests here and standalones build successfully  
with all the necessary support files. To see if yours are missing  
these, go to your built standalone application bundle in the Finder  
and choose to 'Get Info'. There should be a pane in the popup window  
listing plugins - you should see several listed here: in particular  
tiger_theme_support. The check-mark beside it should be enabled.

If this is not the case, then there must be something that in your  
case (and it would seem a couple of other people's cases) that are  
causing this to go awry.

As this is may take a little time to get to the bottom of (and others  
are involved) I urge you to file a bug report were we can collect  
other people's experiences of this phenomenon.

Warmest Regards,

Mark.

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