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<p class=MsoNormal>Hello,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>tracking down a mysterious error since days
and days I am stuck now. It is such a strange error that probably nobody has
ever had this particular problem, but perhaps somebody can find any relation to
any other experience and bring me up on the road again.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>My standard development environment is
Windows (was XP and now Win7), but I also have the environment on Mac. My
standard procedure was to build also the Mac standalone on Win and just add the
Valentina drivers on Mac after having copied the standalone to Mac (which has
worked fine).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>The Error appears in the standalone only on
Mac, on Win it still runs fine<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>I have a dictionary rev app with a
Valentina DB, which run fine over a year. After one of the last Updates, which
wasn’t related to any Valentina handler, I got two errors on startup, a
function in a substack threw an error and my very first Valentina_init
statement failed. I (actually Mark S.!) could get to run the substack again after
having removed a german Umlaut from a function. But the fail of Valentiny_Init
remained. At the very first Valentina Call (VDatabase_IsOpen) it throws me off
without any result or syserror. When trapping the function with try-catch I get
“error in function handler – no hint”.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>So I decided to build the standalone on the
Mac and the error seemed to be gone, I build the next release and delivered to
my customers until I got weird support calls from my Mac customers that they
can not select any more any words with german Umlaute δόφί from the DB.
Everything else works fine with the new release. The Valentina DB can be opened
and seems to work almost normally. Btw. Displaying datas with german Umlaute
works OK (the IOEncoding of the Valentina DB is “Macintosh”). It’s
just the selecting. But searching (SELECT) for words with Umlaute is an
essential “feature” in a german dictionary!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>I tried to reproduce the error on my
machine and yes, I can’t select any Umlaute any more. That means with
selecting any words containing an Umlaut, the result list remains just empty.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>What I tested:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span
lang=EN-US><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>-<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-US>Building the Mac standalone on
Win: it fails on the very first Valentina statement<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span
lang=EN-US><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>-<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-US>Building the Mac standalone on
Mac: no fatal fail, but selecting Umlaute returns empty<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span
lang=EN-US><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>-<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-US>Taking an old DB from a
functioning release or a new DB: same problem<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span
lang=EN-US><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>-<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-US>Reinstalling Valentina: same problem<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span
lang=EN-US><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>-<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-US>Testing with Rev 3.5 and 4.0:
same problem<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span
lang=EN-US><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>-<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-US>The old standalone builds:
still run fine on the same machine<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span
lang=EN-US><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>-<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-US>Running an old rev file in
development environment: same problem<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span
lang=EN-US><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>-<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-US>Testing another test app with
Valentina shows the same result, so the problem is not in the code of my file<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>And now a very strange thing where I hope
that some guys with more Mac experience than me could get a direction of a hint:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span
lang=EN-US><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>-<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-US>I copied an old standalone
bundle on the Mac, which still runs fine. After that I copied the newly created
app into this old bundle – and it works!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>What does this tell us? I don’t know
enough of the depths of the Mac. It looks as if the problem is with the integration
of the Valentina drivers (because it runs with the old package), but I compared
every single file in the packages and the newly created package with the Valentina
drivers looks exactly the same as the old packages. And even if it is a case of
the Valentina drivers, who could this affect just the handling of the Umlaute?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>It almost appears to me that there came any
conflict between MacOS and Valentina and/or Rev with any MacOS Update.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Has anybody ever encountered such a case
(probably not with Valentina, but perhaps something similar)?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>I posted already to the Valentina List, but
this problem seems to be too strange to get help.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Any idea or hint what I could do or test is
highly appreciated - a german dictionary without Umlaute isn’t a
dictionary anymore </span><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:Wingdings'>L</span><span
lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Thanks<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Tiemo<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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