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gorickey · Aug 11, 2003, 10:22 AM

Just wondering if anybody has tried to get Panther's Expos� feature to work in 10.2.6 yet...

Is it even possible?

sandsl · Aug 11, 2003, 10:43 AM

Originally posted by gorickey:
Just wondering if anybody has tried to get Panther's Expos� feature to work in 10.2.6 yet...

Is it even possible?

Impossible (or atleast highly unlikely) that Expos� could be brought into 10.2.6 without rewriting and re-compiling the code.

Upgrade to Panther if you want one of Panthers features...

gorickey · Aug 11, 2003, 10:45 AM

Originally posted by sandsl:
Upgrade to Panther if you want one of Panthers features...

Plan on it.

I never say impossible btw with companies like "Unsanity" out there...

gorgonzola · Aug 11, 2003, 10:47 AM

Actually, I spoke to Slava at Unsanity because I was curious about this as well, and they said that they were pretty sure it was possible. They didn't see the point in implementing hacks just for old operating systems though, and I have to agree.

But apparently it is possible.

sandsl · Aug 11, 2003, 12:01 PM

Originally posted by gorickey:
Plan on it.

I never say impossible btw with companies like "Unsanity" out there...

Thats why I used high unlikely

I'd have to agree that its pointless.

Maybe it just me, but I haven't found Expose that useful, its nice though...maybe its just old habits die hard

Superchicken · Aug 11, 2003, 12:03 PM

that's nuts!

I woulda thought it'd be like something that woulda had to be built right in... by the way what's with all the funny words? Expose, rendevous... what's the next one gona be? Coupe De Gras?

Moose · Aug 11, 2003, 12:11 PM

Originally posted by Superchic[k]en:
that's nuts!

Expose, rendevous... what's the next one gona be? Coupe De Gras?

Perhaps coup de grace. That'll be the Office replacement.

-Q- · Aug 11, 2003, 01:18 PM

Originally posted by Moose:
Perhaps coup de grace. That'll be the Office replacement.

Nah, it'll be the Apple PDA.

CharlesS · Aug 11, 2003, 02:13 PM

Originally posted by Superchic[k]en:
that's nuts!

I woulda thought it'd be like something that woulda had to be built right in... by the way what's with all the funny words? Expose, rendevous... what's the next one gona be? Coupe De Gras?

Ahem...

That's Expos�, not Expose. Two completely different pronunciations and meanings there.

Did you type that on a PC or something?

sandsl · Aug 11, 2003, 02:36 PM

Originally posted by CharlesS:
[B]That's Expos�, not Expose.

Hands up if anyone can be bothered to use � everytime

I have no need to remember the key combination for it and opening the character palette/keyboard viewer is a bit of a pain...
yeh i'm lazy

Arkham_c · Aug 11, 2003, 03:01 PM

Originally posted by sandsl:
I have no need to remember the key combination for it and opening the character palette/keyboard viewer is a bit of a pain...
yeh i'm lazy

Old-school Mac folk just remember that option-letter-letter often does the trick, and new Mac folk know that OSX shows you a neat-o highlighted accent when you press one that can go on top of a vowel.

Option-e-e yields: �
Option-u-u yields: �
Option-i-i yields: �

The only weird one is `, which is Option-`-letter. So Option-`-e yields �. (accent grave if my decade-old french isn't too rusty).

Musti · Aug 11, 2003, 05:16 PM

Originally posted by sandsl:
Hands up if anyone can be bothered to use � everytime

/me raises hand.

Lucky you that you don't have to speak French...

:XI: · Aug 11, 2003, 05:27 PM

Originally posted by Superchic[k]en:
that's nuts!

I woulda thought it'd be like something that woulda had to be built right in... by the way what's with all the funny words? Expose, rendevous... what's the next one gona be? Coupe De Gras?

Rendezvous

Apple's Office Suite will be called 'coup d'�tat' for obvious reasons.

Angus_D · Aug 11, 2003, 05:31 PM

The APIs for applying affine transforms to windows are there in 10.2 (and 10.1 and 10.0), but they're a bit sucky and unoptimized and private. You could probably hack up something vaguely similar, but you can't really "port" it as it's built into the windowserver in 10.3.

Superchicken · Aug 11, 2003, 06:44 PM

the joys of OS X

stew · Aug 12, 2003, 01:30 AM

Prepare for a company renaming in 2005. The company will then have the name "pomme" and the fearless leader Stephane Jobs will present the new Mac de force G sept.

Gee4orce · Aug 12, 2003, 01:55 AM

Just as an aside: the Panther
Calculator can be run under Jaguar. I replaced my Jaguar one with it. It doesn't suffer the keypress delay of the Jaguar calc.

snerdini · Aug 13, 2003, 08:49 PM

Originally posted by stew:
Prepare for a company renaming in 2005. The company will then have the name "pomme" and the fearless leader Stephane Jobs will present the new Mac de force G sept.

LOL!