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Re: Expressionist.



>>>>> "John" == John Edward Bauer <jbauer@plains.nodak.edu> writes:

    John> Hi. A friend of mine has this program called expressionist
    John> .. it allows you to create expressions with
    John> integrals.. etc. He said the program on a normal mac came up
    John> under the apple menu.. This was weird to me because i had
    John> never seen anything like this..

That's how a "desk accessory" behaves.

    John> so I told him it would most
    John> likly not work.. we tried putting it in the system
    John> folder..etc.. but on boot up it was not there.. so he went
    John> to eat.. came back ..started it up..and low and behold.. it
    John> was there.. (under the omega symbol) in the browser..

I suspect that at one point it was dragged to the Hot-band, because
that's how you install desk accessories under Executor.

    John> It
    John> worked too.. kinda..  we chould not resize the window or use
    John> any options under the 'expressionist' pull down which was
    John> added to the list of browser pull down menus... have
    John> programs like this worked in the past?..  any info would be
    John> great.. thanks..

Yes, desk accessories often don't work under Executor, especially
accesses to menus.  This is something we're working on.  In addition,
installation of Desk Accessories needs a bit of work because the
Browser doesn't acknowledge the installation until after you run a
program, and if you drag something to the hotband twice, it gets put
in there twice.

It turns out that today I'm working on a variety of Browser related
bugs, so I'll try to fix the Font/DA Installation problems.  Next week
I'll try to get to DA problems with menus.

    John> John.

--Cliff
ctm@ardi.com


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