I haven't made much progress on this problem. My original report was
indeed on a PPC (G4 system) running 10.3.9. I've recently migrated to
a macbook pro that displays the same problem.
However, I have noticed that the problem doesn't seem to occur until
after I export a document as a .pdf file. This behavior is consistent
on the 3 mac's I use (G4 cube, G5 iMac, and macbook pro).
Yours,
A S Hodel
On Jul 26, 2006, at 7:50 AM, Bennett Helm wrote:
On Jul 26, 2006, at 12:15 AM, Jens Noeckel wrote:
Hi,
with the help of Bennett's install instructions, I compiled LyX 1.4.2
on my Intel Mac using gcc 4.0 and Qt 3.3.6. However, while testing
the Application, I noticed a problem with the menus and keyboard
shortcuts that seems to be identical to what has been reported by
A.S.Hodel in this earlier message:
http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg47044.html
(the upshot is that menu items in the LyX menu seem to be cyclically
shifted by one so that one cannot access the quit function at all,
whereas Command-, opens the About Box instead of the Preferences). I
wonder if there has ever been a resolution to that problem.
I've never been able to duplicate this on PPC, and IIRC yours is the
first report of confirmation of this problem. So we haven't even tried
to resolve it yet.
When I discovered this on my native build, I went back to Bennett's
PPC binary linked from http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/LyXOnMac, and saw that
this build has the same behavior. I also tried this with a clean new
user so that there couldn't have been any pollution from old LyX or
.lyx files anywhere. Then I checked the same binary on two PPC macs
and found that everything works just fine there. This means that
something strange is going on only on the Intel platform (the same
PPC binary behaves differently on PPC versus Intel, even though it
runs through Rosetta emulation when on Intel!)
It would be interesting to clarify if A.S.Hodel's analogous problem
happened on the PPC or on the Intel platform.
Hodel implies that it's a problem on PPC (since he says it's a problem
for OS X 10.3 as well as 10.4).
Just to clarify: with a clean user on Intel, you see the problem
still, right?
Also, is the problem only with key bindings, or is it a problem with
mouse selection as well? (If you select LyX > Preferences with the
mouse, do you get the preferences dialog or the About box?)
I hope someone can help narrow down the source of this weirdness...
I've looked at the standard.ui interface file and it seems to define
all the menu items properly. Somehow the mapping of the user input to
the lyx function is scrambled. Since the menus themselves look OK
(e.g., Quit appears where it should, with the Command-Q shortcut
displayed next to it), I'd suspect that this isn't directly a Qt
issue.
Not being a programmer, I'm at a loss. Perhaps Jean-Marc (who wrote
the code to get the menubar to work on Mac) will have an idea when he
comes back from vacation. (And hopefully now it will be on his radar!)
Bennett
A Scottedward Hodel, PhD, Associate Professor
Dept. Electrical and Computer Engineering, 200 Broun Hall
Auburn University, AL 36849-5201
(334) 844-1854 Fax: (34) 844-1809
http://www.eng.auburn.edu/~hodelas
