Lion

Joe Lewis Wilkins pepetoo at cox.net
Wed Feb 15 11:30:13 EST 2012


Paul, 

Thanks for your insights. This doesn't appear to be an easy transition for anyone. Hopefully, RR is monitoring these threads and will also learn more things they need to improve. Keep the faith!

Joe Wilkins

On Feb 15, 2012, at 12:14 AM, Paul Hibbert wrote:

> Hi Joe,
> 
> Two more issues I've come up against since upgrading to Lion:
> 
> If you use 'import snapshot' without any parameters the resulting snapshot is just total garbage, this command was a problem under Snow Leopard, Vista and MX although not quite as bad. RR have known about it for several years, but have not fixed it so far, so I'm not anticipating fix real soon.
> 
> Another command that returns total garbage under Lion is 'mouseColor' and even worse, if the 'mouseColor' command is active and you move the cursor to the top of the screen, LC or a standalone will crash.
> 
> Both of these issues have been reported, (#6430 & #9980) and they both affect apps that I'm building so it meant some major rethinking on my part. The first one was no big deal, it actually forced me to improve the app, but the second issue is a problem, I've had to disable a feature for Lion users, that's not good.
> 
> Apart from that, I felt it was important to know what my apps were like on Apple's latest system, it's been out for a while now so there's a good chance your app may end up running on it somewhere.
> 
> Paul
> 
> On 15 Feb 2012, at 04:15, Joe Lewis Wilkins wrote:
> 
>> Anyone using Lion:
>> 
>> Are your stand-alones created with LC using Snow Leopard or earlier running OK on Lion? I have yet to move up to Lion. Also, is LC 4.5.2 running OK on Lion? What about other apps such as AppleWorks? 
>> 
>> And is Lion much different than Snow Leopard? I'm sure that must be discussed on the Apple website, but while I'm at it????
>> 
>> TIA,
>> 
>> Joe Wilkins





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