[Mesquitelist] bugs in Mesquite?

[jd314704 at ohio.edu]

Ergh. Should know better than to try to email during an experiment. Apologies 
to those who get this twice.

Anyway, below is how to deal with the Vista problem.

Joe D.

Quoting Wayne Maddison <wmaddisn at interchange.ubc.ca>:

> Thanks!  There must be some issue with the installer.  Could you send
> 
> this response to the list?
> Wayne
> 
> >We've tried it in our lab on Vista machines and have noticed that
> happens
> >sometimes when trying to open from the desktop icon. However, if you
> start it
> >by opening the Run_mesquite_windows.bat file, the program opens
> correctly and
> >there is no problem after that.
> >
> >Joe D.
> >
> >
> >Quoting Wayne Maddison <wmaddisn at interchange.ubc.ca>:
> >
> >>  OK, no need to get into a Mac versus PC flame war.  For what
> it's
> >>  worth, Mesquite in the old days (ca. 1998-2003) behaved a bit
> better
> >>
> >>  on Macs (there was one particularly nasty menu bug in Sun's Java
> on
> >>  Windows).  Then for several years (ca. 2003-2006) the speed was
> much
> >>
> >>  better under Windows, and Mac Java had several glitches in
> graphics.
> >>
> >>  For the last couple of years Mac OS X and Windows seem about
> equally
> >>
> >>  good at running Mesquite.
> >>
> >>  Does anyone have comments about installing or running Mesquite
> under
> >>
> >>  Vista?  Has it worked well for you, or are there "issues"?
> >>
> >>  Wayne
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>  --
> >>  --------------------------------------------------------
> >>  Wayne Maddison
> >>    Professor and Canada Research Chair
> >>            Depts. of Zoology and Botany and
> >>            Biodiversity Research Centre
> >>    & Director
> >>            Beaty Biodiversity Museum
> >>    6270 University Boulevard
> >>    University of British Columbia
> >>    Vancouver, BC  V6T 1Z4   Canada
> >>
> >>  email: wmaddisn at interchange.ubc.ca   FAX: +1 604 822-2416
> >>
> >>  Mesquite: http://mesquiteproject.org
> >>  MacClade: http://macclade.org
> >>  Salticidae:  http://salticidae.org
> >>  Tree of Life: http://tolweb.org
> >>  Beaty Biodiversity Museum: http://beatymuseum.ubc.ca
> >>  Home page: http://salticidae.org/wpm/home.html
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> >>
> 
> 
> -- 
> --------------------------------------------------------
> Wayne Maddison
>   Professor and Canada Research Chair
>           Depts. of Zoology and Botany and
>           Biodiversity Research Centre
>   & Director
>           Beaty Biodiversity Museum
>   6270 University Boulevard
>   University of British Columbia
>   Vancouver, BC  V6T 1Z4   Canada
> 
> email: wmaddisn at interchange.ubc.ca   FAX: +1 604 822-2416
> 
> Mesquite: http://mesquiteproject.org
> MacClade: http://macclade.org
> Salticidae:  http://salticidae.org
> Tree of Life: http://tolweb.org
> Beaty Biodiversity Museum: http://beatymuseum.ubc.ca
> Home page: http://salticidae.org/wpm/home.html
>