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Friday, April 26, 2002

ResPloder on OS 9 ResPloder 1.1 does work on OS 9. It's a bit slow to explode/implode big files. I tried it on IE 5 :) It took it a good while to both explode and implode the result. But in the end I got a working copy of IE from my exploded file. I think the slowness is due to the fact that I put the explode and implode code in threads so I could make it stopable. You can even put it in the background and it behaves well. Gives you time to do stuff. But it means that it'll take a bit longer to finish. Oh yeah. And it ran out of memory. It couldn't explode all of IE 5 with the 4M I give it as its default memory setting. I set it to 10M and it worked fine. This, of course, isn't a problem in Mac OS X. comment ()  1:42:59 PM  #   Mac OS 9 Day I'm going to post everything from Mac OS 9 today. That should be an interesting change of pace. I haven't used OS 9 in so long. But I want to find out if there are any bugs in the OS 9 versions of Radio Poster and ResPloder before I release them next week. So wish me luck. comment ()  10:23:11 AM  #   cosmetic details I'm noticing some cosmetic problems with Radio Poster on Mac OS 9. In particular, the fonts are giving me fits. The system font on Mac OS X is Lucida Grande. The system font on Mac OS 9 is Charcoal. Lucida Grande looks pretty good for an edit window on OS X, but Charcoal looks pretty bad on OS 9. And REALbasic does some funky things depending on whether font smoothing is turned on. I found that if I am using a font size that doesn't do font smoothing, then my styles don't show up. I bold the title in the preview pane, but that doesn't work on OS X without font smoothing. Very strange. What I think I really want to do is switch to WASTEfield, but there are some problems with that as well. I think a lot of the problems are fixed in REALbasic 4.5, but I'm not quite sure when that will be released. comment ()  10:11:16 AM  #

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