OK, I can now corroborate this. This crash does occur on my Intel Mac, but not on my G5 (sorry about the 10-26 autobuild red herring). 10.5 on both, 11/04 autobuild. I'll put this in the tracker.
Please file a bug report in the tracker:
http://puredata.info/dev/bugtracker
.hc
On Nov 4, 2007, at 1:56 PM, marius schebella wrote:
> hey,
> apple was so nice to send me a 10.5 install dvd, and I can confirm
> that
> pd-extended crashes when I want to open the help menu. (pd-vanilla
> 0.40-2 works fine, hehe...)
> all pd-e versions that I tested crashed ( 0.39.3, 0.40.3 from 08/31 and
> even the one from oct26!)
> marius.
>
>
> Luke Iannini (pd) wrote:
>> Well, I can't actually type anything in the new Help "Search" box
>> (the
>> cursor blinks but no text appears), but the menu entries below all
>> work as
>> they always have.
>> Cheers
>> Luke
>>
>> On 11/3/07, Hans-Christoph Steiner < hans@eds.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> And the help menu stuff works fine?
>>>
>>>
>>> .hc
>>>
>>> On Nov 3, 2007, at 2:18 AM, Luke Iannini (pd) wrote:
>>>
>>> Well, good news - I only had the crash when running an autobuild
>>> (pde
>>> 0.40.3) from September. I'm using October 26th's now and the
>>> crash no
>>> longer occurs.
>>>
>>> Luke
>>>
>>> On 11/2/07, Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans@eds.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> If you feel like testing what in particular is causing the bug, you
>>>> could try commenting out things in the pd.tk:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Pd.app/Contents/Resources/bin/pd.tk
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> It's just a text file. Check around line 614, $mbar.help is the
>>>> help
>>>> menu for any patch. The help menu for the Pd window is
>>>> called .mbar.help,
>>>> that comes earlier in the file.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I don't have access to a 10.5 machine, so I won't be able to try
>>>> anything.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> .hc
>>>>
>>>> On Nov 1, 2007, at 5:26 PM, Luke Iannini (pd) wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hallo, I can confirm this...Must have something to do with
>>>> Leopard's
>>>> wacky new searchable menus feature, which is built in to the
>>>> Help menu.
>>>>
>>>> On 11/1/07, Luiz Naveda <lab.naveda@gmail.com > wrote:
>>>>> Hallo list!
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I've just installed latest PD-extended in Macbook OSX 10.5
>>>>> Leopard.
>>>>> When I try to click on the help menu, it crashes. I 've
>>>>> experimented
>>>>> the same problem a couple of years ago in other macs. Anybody
>>>>> in the
>>>>> same situation?
>>>>>
>>>>> Best
>>>>>
>>>>> Luiz
>>>>>
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