[texworks] Preferences on Mac OS X 10.6.2

[Jonathan Kew]

I'd suggest that you try clearing the system font caches on your  
machine; Google for tools and/or procedures to do this. (One example  
I've used is "FontNuke", but I know there are others.) If you find one  
that specifically mentions 10.6.2 support, or at least 10.6 support,  
so much the better.

The Mac font system seems to be rather fragile and vulnerable to  
various problems caused when its cache files get internally damaged in  
some way, and you may be seeing a result of this.

JK

On 23 Nov 2009, at 20:23, Helge Baumann wrote:

> On the two other accounts on my mac TeXWorks woks fine including  
> preferences, just on my account it hangs. I disabled my own fonts,  
> but no change :(
>
> From system.log:
> [0x0-0x95a95a].org.tug.texworks[19469]: Qt: internal: -108: Error  
> ATSUMeasureTextImage text/qfontengine_mac.mm: 1092
>
> Google finds the QTBUG-5088, describing this problem, but with no  
> resolution.
>
> Xcode Instruments shows constant memory allocation "CFString" (>150  
> MB).
>
> Activity Monitor sample is attached.
>
> Hope this helps
> Helge
> <Analyse von „TeXworks“.txt>
> Am 22.11.2009 um 23:13 schrieb Jonathan Kew:
>
>> On 22 Nov 2009, at 08:13, Helge Baumann wrote:
>>
>>> just did this, but didn't help.
>>> TeXWorks starts up, everything works except preferences :(
>>>
>>> I think, I have to start debugging ...
>>
>>
>> I have not yet updated to 10.6 myself, so I'm guessing here....  
>> I've seen various reports of font-related problems on 10.6.x, so I  
>> wonder if it might be hanging when it tries to build the font menu  
>> (for the Editor panel in Preferences).
>>
>> One thing you can do is to "sample" the process when it is in this  
>> hung state (open Activity Monitor, select the TeXworks process, and  
>> click the Sample Process button). This may show us where it's stuck.
>>
>> JK
>>
>>>
>>> Bye
>>> Helge
>>>
>>> Am 21.11.2009 um 23:13 schrieb Herbert Schulz:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Nov 21, 2009, at 1:29 PM, Helge Baumann wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> I wanted to open preferences on my MacBook Pro with Mac OS X  
>>>>> 10.6.2, but got just the spinning ball?
>>>>> I can't find any existing (may be damaged) preferences files, it  
>>>>> just doesn't work ...
>>>>>
>>>>> Any suggestions or other people with the same problem?
>>>>>
>>>>> Bye
>>>>> Helge
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Howdy,
>>>>
>>>> The preference file is ~/Library/Preferences/ 
>>>> org.tug.TeXworks.plist, where ~ is your HOME directory. Simply  
>>>> remove it from that folder and start up TeXworks.
>>>>
>>>> Good Luck,
>>>>
>>>> Herb Schulz
>>>> (herbs at wideopenwest dot com)
>>>
>
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