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Q: Pages '09 no longer will access dictionary/thesaurus in "writing tools"

I got Pages from the App Store last month. I got the upgrade just before Lion launched. I installed Lion. All worked fine til yesterday. Then Pages stopped accessing the dictionary/thesaurus in "Writing Tools." Then I had quite a few crashes -- some other settings like my Desktop changed. I can boot up and didn't lose any data that I know of. Any suggestions about linking the dictionary/thesaurus to writing tools as it was meant to? Thanks!

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7)

Posted on Jul 26, 2011 11:17 AM

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CONTROL+COMMAND+D is the solution. Make sure your mouse is hovering over the word. Selecting it will not produce the result you want if your mouse has moved since you selected it, oddly.

 

Also, oddly, the contextual menu (right click, or control click) does not produce the popup menu. But control command d does. who'd a thought? still a bug i hope apple fixes. it's silly to have a menu item nonfunctional. But then Lion has so many bugs i can't get into it right now. But as a legacy Apple user and onetime evangelist, i'm pretty freaked out. not that i'd ever switch, but it's very disappointing.

Posted on Sep 28, 2011 11:49 AM

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  • by nonoNC,

    nonoNC nonoNC Jan 15, 2012 4:22 PM in response to KOENIG Yvan
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    Jan 15, 2012 4:22 PM in response to KOENIG Yvan

    I agree with Yvan that it may not be called a "Pages" bug at this point. However it might still be a bug, e.g from the Lion Upgrade Assistant.

     

    After making some tests on a token custom app in xcode I found that compiling against 10.6 leads to leaks which eventually crash the test application on repeated calls to the dictionary. I ran both my custom app and Pages in the Instruments.app to count the leaks and it behaves just the same. When the custom app is built against 10.7 then things behave perfectly well.

     

    Interestingly, the dictionary works well with any Intel-only app on my system, whether they are 32 or 64 bit apps (e.g Grapher is 32bit and it works). However it doesn't work with any of the Universal app under my user account, e.g iTunes 10.5.2.

  • by KOENIG Yvan,

    KOENIG Yvan Jan 16, 2012 5:45 AM in response to nonoNC
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    Jan 16, 2012 5:45 AM in response to nonoNC

    I repeat that it behave flawlessly on my machine.

    As far as I know, Apple didn't compiled a copy for my own use.

    What you got in Instruments.app is perfectly noirmal.

    Apple state:

    Choose Software Update from the Apple menu to automatically check for the latest Apple software, including this update (Software Update might have linked you to this article to learn more about the update). If your computer is not up to date, other software updates available for your computer may appear. Note that an update's size may vary from computer to computer when installed using Software Update. Also, some updates must be installed prior to others, so you should run Software Update more than once to make sure you have all available updates. Running this update requires Mac OS X 10.6.6 or later.

    So, it's not surprising to see code dedicated to 10.6.6 in the apps.

    When they are used under Lion, they arn't supposed to execute these pieces of code.

    I don't know which way they decide to use this or that code but given the behavior reported here and there, it seems that when the operating system was installed on an existing 10.6.x system the wrong code may be executed.

    I never install a major upgrade upon an existing system to be sure that I will work with a clean tool. It seems that it's really a good practice.

     

    Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) lundi 16 janvier 2012

    iMac 21”5, i7, 2.8 GHz, 12 Gbytes, 1 Tbytes, mac OS X 10.6.8 and 10.7.2

    My Box account  is : http://www.box.com/s/00qnssoyeq2xvc22ra4k

    My iDisk is : http://public.me.com/koenigyvan

  • by Coxize,

    Coxize Coxize Jun 18, 2012 3:35 PM in response to Coxize
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    Jun 18, 2012 3:35 PM in response to Coxize

    Same here

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