Two Scary Mac Bugs (just in time for Halloween)

[Keith DeLong <lists@redcort.com>]

Both of these bugs are consistently reproducible in Mac OS X10.4 but not
10.5:
 
1. If a sheet is open on a window, attempting to modally open a subsequent
dialog as a sheet silently fails.

In our case we are confirming save changes when closing the sheet. No
problem in 10.5 or Win32 builds. OS X 10.4 builds silently miss the dialog,
allowing the code to continues and result in a NOE when testing the results
of the dialog.


2. Looking up an Integer keys in dictionaries using Int64 values fail on OS
x 10.4:

Dim i as integer = 2
myDictionary.Value( i ) = someString


Later on...
MyString = myDictionary.lookup( myField.text.Clong, "" )

In 10.4 myString = ""
On 10.5 and Win32 myString = someString

However, this works on all 3 platforms:

Dim i as Integer = myField.text.CLong
MyString = myDictionary.lookup( i, "" )

Hope this saves someone else some hassles,

Keith DeLong



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