Re: st: undocumented mac update?

[David Airey <david.airey@vanderbilt.edu>]

On Mar 19, 2008, at 11:19 AM, Chinh Nguyen wrote:
> 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.
Yes, this was annoying. Thank you for fixing.

I always like a readme to accompany any installation of anything on my  
computer, just on principle. If I can't find that, I'm wary of what  
I'm installing.


> 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).
I had not noticed.

> -Chinh Nguyen
> cnguyen@stata.com
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