Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!ukc!edcastle!cs.ed.ac.uk!cs.edinburgh.ac.uk!nick From: nick@cs.edinburgh.ac.uk (Nick Rothwell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer Subject: ResEdit 2.0b2, GateKeeper 1.1.1 incompatibility Message-ID: <523@skye.cs.ed.ac.uk> Date: 5 Oct 90 10:54:24 GMT Sender: nnews@cs.ed.ac.uk Reply-To: nick@lfcs.ed.ac.uk Organization: Wavetables 'R' Us Lines: 28 I've found what seems to be a rather obscure incompatibility between ResEdit 2.0b2 and GateKeeper 1.1.1. When GateKeeper is active, ResEdit will *sometimes* bomb out when trying to create or edit MENU's. When it does so, it stamps on its preferences file, so the usual let-try-it-again-without-any-INITs trick doesn't work (that kept me guessing for a while...) The weird thing is that I'm running GateKeeper in notify-only mode, so it's only throwing up an alert and continuing when ResEdit makes any alterations. Hitting GateKeeper's override button seems to fix it sometimes (I haven't tested this exhaustively); also, granting ResEdit Res(Self) privileges seems to be a fix. As I say: GateKeeper is only running in Notify mode, so the privileges it grants to ResEdit should be irrelevant. Perhaps there's a problem like the one with, what is it, MacDraw II? Configuration: Mac SE/30 4/40, System 6.0.4. The problem *doesn't* manifest itself on a Mac Plus, 6.0.4, with GateKeeper 1.1. Nick. -- Nick Rothwell, Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science, Edinburgh. nick@lfcs.ed.ac.uk !mcsun!ukc!lfcs!nick ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ "Now remember - and this is most important - you must think in Russian."