Re: st: undocumented mac update?

[Chinh Nguyen <cnguyen@stata.com>]

David Airey <david.airey@Vanderbilt.Edu> wrote:

> Phil Ender and I downloaded a mac app update:
>
> Stata/MP 10.0 for Macintosh
> Born 17 Mar 2008
> Copyright (C) 1985-2008
> that is not described in the whatsnew file. ANy clues?
We believed the Mac-only update to be so minor that it didn't warrant  
a whatsnew file.  However, future executable updates will always  
include a whatsnew regardless of how minor an update is.  A whatsnew  
describing the recent Mac update is available now.  Type -update all-  
to get it.  A more detailed description follows:

Some of Stata's resource files had their file permissions set to be  
only readable by the owner of Stata and members of the same group as  
the owner of Stata.  If a user was neither, Stata would not launch  
(users in a lab environment could have been affected by this).  This  
has been fixed.

In the 25 Feb 2008 Mac executable update, some of Stata's dialogs were  
rewritten to Apple's preferred method of handling dialogs.  However,  
the close window button (the red button in the upper left corner of a  
window) was added to the dialogs by the resource file tool we used to  
design the dialogs.  For dialogs that require a user to click a push  
button (such as OK or Cancel) to dismiss a dialog, there should not be  
a close window button.  This has been fixed in Stata's resource files  
(no code changed).

-Chinh Nguyen
 cnguyen@stata.com

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