In Mori 1.6.6, Windows are Still Coming Up Empty…Sometimes

20 11 2007

Unfortunately, one of the fixes I thought I made didn’t carry over from one of the work directories (four at last count) I used to develop for the various MOX versions.

Or I was completely delirious at the time and never made the fix at all.

Whatever the cause, 1.6.6 still shows empty windows as a result of the toolbar problem. You can see when Mori gets confused by checking your console logs. You’ll see an entry like

2007-11-20 11:58:08.592 Mori[8503] *** -[NSCFArray objectAtIndex:]: index (0) beyond bounds (0)

Here’s the cause, and one of three possible paths you can take to get around this while you wait for the, hopefully finally fixed at last, v1.6.7 update: In order to improve your user experience (are you feeling it?), I wanted to move your old toolbar preferences settings to the new internal naming system. So it performs a check to see if the two settings are different, erasing the current one and copying over the new one if they are. However, if your previous toolbar had more items than the current one does, it will come up short during the compare and thus cause a Cocoa exception.

Mea culpa. Mea fixa isa cominga uppa.

    In the meantime, here are three ways to get your notebooks back all shiny and fresh.

  1. Add a bunch of extra items to your toolbar. Probably at the very beginning where they’re easier to get to and remove.
  2. Rename your preferences file (com.apokalypsesoftware.Mori.plist in your Preferences folder) until such time as Mori 1.6.7 is released and things have settled down. Or, if it doesn’t particularly bother you to personalize your toolbar again you could just delete that file.
  3. Just open all those important notebooks. Close them. Re-open those notebooks. All your data now appears because Mori has updated the toolbar info. (Or you can just do this for those notebooks you need for the moment. The fix will be released shortly…once I check a few things here first!)
  4. My apologies again to those who were alarmed at opening an empty notebook.


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3 responses to “In Mori 1.6.6, Windows are Still Coming Up Empty…Sometimes”

20 11 2007
byakkie (17:31:14) :

Hello, Alfonso.

I might have found one of the bugs.
I sent you a private message from the contact page.

to Mori lovers:
If you uncheck “Enable check spelling as you type in new windows” in Mori’s preferences, check it and restart Mori. I could find the toolbar and my beloved old notes in this way.

22 11 2007
Alastor933 (14:44:32) :

Ahh! This may explain my having no real trouble with Mori. I don’t type in English, so I had that option turned off from the start.

22 11 2007
huperniketes (15:20:58) :

Isn’t there a spell checker for Italian text? Or do you have English set as your preferred language? And how is the Italian text for Mori? Spero che non è molto malvagio. (I hope it isn’t very bad.) It’s still incomplete, but I hope it’s inoffensive and usable.

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