On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 9:24 pm -0500, Michael Lewis wrote: >>There's a bug in < 10.3, and I'm not sure when/if it was squashed in >>10.2.x, where if you have more than a certain number of Services, they >>stop working in Carbon apps. > >Not sure what they limit is, if any in 10.2.8, but I have 16 services >listed and some of those have 2-3 or more "sub-services" which I suppose >would count? If so, then I have a total of 37 services. Some I could >probably do without as I installed them a long time ago (10.1 maybe? :) ) >and they've been superceded by newer apps' services and such. But they >all seem to work, and I haveother fish to fry, so I haven't bothered.
Actually, I've just noticed this in the WordServices Readme: > · Due to bugs in the service system of Mac OS X up to version 10.2.6, >the services > menu might disappear in Carbon applications like the Finder if the >number of > service items exceeds a certain number (around 60-70 items usually). >Just remove > all unnecessary applications providing services if that's the case. > · In addition some service commands modifying selected text might not work in > Carbon applications like the Finder too (the result just looks like >"garbage"). This > is either a bug of those applications or Mac OS X. TimH
