Re: [MacPerl] StdCLib init 3.4.1 kills native MacPerl

[angus@aegypt.demon.co.uk (Angus McIntyre)]

At 5:09 PM 04.01.96, Doyle B. Myers wrote:
>I also see something else weird with MacPerl app -- when I run it and pull
>down the "Script" menu, it has "i" (the Spanish punctuation mark) instead
>of the command symbol in the menu. If I do an "About MacPerl..." then pull
>down the "Script" menu again, the command key symbol is correct! This
>doesn't last forever, though -- it will revert to the "i" soon after. This
>happens in both the emulated and native MacPerl apps on my system, but not
>on others. No other app has a problem displaying the command key symbol on
>my machine ... Any ideas?

My guess is that something you're using besides MacPerl makes use of the
Mercutio MDEF. I've noticed (and reported) this problem. If you switch back
and forth between different applications that use Mercutio, the menu can
gets garbled in pretty much the fashion you describe - I get inverted
exclamation marks and pound signs (printed somehow in a space too small for
them, so that they get truncated and look really vile) in place of the
command and shift symbols. As you say, bringing up an About box - or
perhaps any new window? - fixes the problem temporarily.

Applications that use Mercutio include:

        MacPerl
        BBEdit
        NewsHopper
        NetScape 2.0

Are you using any of those besides MacPerl?

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