A-ha!!! (was Re: New bugs in 2.2.2?)

[Brian C.]

Okay, I still can't repro this darn thing, but Steve can on his 
machine, and he's taking a look at it. Thanks, all!

Sincerely,

Brian C.
Support Manager
Omni Group


On Tuesday, July 22, 2003, at 10:45 PM, Alexandre Enkerli wrote:

> [Sorry to be so dramatic, there's an ad in Quebec with a good 
> "A-ha!"...]
>
> Haven't investigated the line shift yet but in all likelihood, the 
> dead key/diacritics bug is related to the Cocoa spellchecker.
> With "check spelling as you type" on, OO 222 produces the bug on all 
> the keyboards I use except one which doesn't have deadkeys (IPAKeys): 
> US, Unicode Input, US extended... What's more, going back to Mail.app 
> (which also uses "check as you type") reports that the spellchecker 
> can't be accessed. In fact, it causes long stalls even after quitting 
> and only logging out worked to break this charm.
> Also, "Check spelling as you type" may be switched by other apps.
> OTOH, working with a document that worked (accented characters 
> produced with spellchecking disabled) didn't reproduce the problem, 
> just now. Didn't have other apps open.
> Wait! It does seem to fail when Mail.app is open before I go to OO. 
> Including the line shifting thing (didn't happen with spellchecking 
> disabled and OO as only app). So it must really be a single problem 
> with the interaction of the system-wide spellcheck.
> Also, for some reason, the 2.2.1 problem 2.2.2 was supposed to fix 
> (switching column types in French localized) doesn't seem to be fixed 
> in this context.
> 10.2.6, French as default language, several installed keyboards (or 
> just US: same behaviour), OO 2.2 v66 directly from the image.
> Hope this helps.
>
> Alex