Apple

On Apr 10, 2006, at 12:51 AM, Chris Espinosa wrote:

On Apr 9, 2006, at 8:11 PM, Darkshadow wrote:

Created and Modified
03/04/2006
[which is British usage for 3rd April 2006

So it really looks like there's something strange going on here. The framework appears to be there, yet it can't be found by dyld and loaded.

Note above that the date of the AE.framework package is 28 March 2005, yet the executable mod date is 3 April 2006. That isn't good. Nothing should be modifying system frameworks.

You are right in that it is Cocoa bringing in all of ApplicationServices, including AE. The first thing your application sees when launched from the Finder is an 'oapp' AppleEvent, so it needs the AE framework to handle it.

My guess is that somehow (installation of some other package?) the AE framework, and who knows what else, was modified/corrupted. I would doubt that any new apps will launch on his system if this is the case, and I recommend a reinstall from system software CDs.

Chris

Well, note that the 10.4.6 update was released on April 3rd.

That said, maybe *something* did. In one of the emails from him, he wrote that other than my app, his iMac is behaving "perfectly" - but that he had a few programs that broke with the 10.3.6 update. Then he said "patches" were quickly available for those. That may just be a bad usage of the word, though, and he may have just meant upgrades.

I'll email him and suggest that he try using the combo updater - if that doesn't work then I may tell him to try reinstalling, but something tells me he may not be very keen on the idea. It does seem that only my app is having problems on his system.

Darkshadow

(aka Michael Nickerson)

References:
	>Confusing runtime link error (From: Darkshadow <email@hidden>)
	>Re: Confusing runtime link error (From: Chris Espinosa <email@hidden>)