crash bringing up font menu

vjlove's icon

Hi, I have a new behaviour occurring which is v. bad.
If I start Max, open the jit.gl.text2d help,
then click on the umenu at the bottom left holding the font list,
Max crashes.
I tried trashing the preferences file.
I tried reinstalling Max.
Any ideas?

vjlove's icon

sorry, this is on a macbook pro running leopard

Dg's icon

It is probably a problem with your fonts.
I remember Max 4.6 only recognize TrueType.
Is that justify a crash? I don't know.

Emmanuel Jourdan's icon

It doesn't crash for me (MacBook pro, leopard). Please send detailed
information and crash log to support at cycling74 dot com and we help
you with this issue.

Best,
ej

On 22 sept. 08, at 19:20, Derrick Giscloux
wrote:

>
> It is probably a problem with your fonts.
> I remember Max 4.6 only recognize TrueType.
> Is that justify a crash? I don't know.

vjlove's icon

Thanks for the suggestions, sent a crashfile to support.
I found a workaround, use "mode 2" on the umenu.
I have 277 fonts, maybe that's too many?
This wouldn't be so bad if you just opensourced max :-)
This sort of thing is why I hate commercial tools; dead in the water with no hope but to propitiate the coder gods. or their managers. next project uses OpenSG, thanks.