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[frmars]

I do not get it. Everything was just working fine, and it has been so for months.
I didn' t install anything particular (apart from a font program a few days ago , font agent pro)

Today, amule started crashing at start up. Repeatedly. Donwloaded it again, to be sure >> crash again.

The crash log can be seen here : http://frmars.wordpress.com/

What the f... is happening ?

[phoenix]

I didn' t install anything particular (apart from a font program a few days ago , font agent pro)

That particular phrase is the answer to your problem. You have probably solved your own problem, you just had not the faith to believe in the facts.

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TGlyphList&, TFontCascade const&) + 476
508 com.apple.CoreText 0×9023af3c TGlyphEncoder::RunUnicodeEncoder(CTRun*, CFRange, TGlyphList&, TFontCascade const&) + 268
(repeated one thousand times until the stack overflows...)
You have "just" installed a font program and now you get these errors. Man, I don't understand much about Mac, but if I were you, I would uninstall this program and make sure that no part of it is left. Btw, you should have already tried this, this would probably have spared you some time.

I don't know who said this, but this is a very wise said: "If you see a turtle in a tree, you can be sure that someone has put it over there."

[frmars]

I realized that the font software wasn't the cause of my troubles
But indeed, messing with the fonts had done something to amule :
I had trashed some of the fonts that OSX installs at start (there are a good many of them which are pretty useless)
And my troubles began.
I managed to re-install some of them, and Amule could start anew. Downloading could resume.
But I still have font issues. When I start a search, it still crashes.

So the question now is rather ;
WHO KNOWS WHAT FONTS AMULE REQUIRES TO RUN  ?

Thanks

[phoenix]

I don't know why you used such big fonts, but anyway...

aMule knows nothing about your fonts, your window manager or theme is the responsible for that.

[frmars]

aMule knows nothing about your fonts, your window manager or theme is the responsible for that.

Is it because I  am not a native speaker ? but I just do not get what you mean.

Reminding again that :
- amule kept crashing right from start
- you pointed out (judging from crash log) that fonts could be the trouble
- i reinstalled some missing fonts : Amule started anew and downloading of already launched items resumed
- but search of new items crashed the software.

Could you be a bit more elaborate ? "aMule knows nothing about your fonts" ? What is the "window manager", what is the "theme" ?

[phoenix]

For example, in linux, all applications that use GTK+ have a common look. aMule on Linux uses wxGTK, which is a flavor of wxWidgets, which in turn is the platform over which aMule is built. In theory, programming over wxWidgets makes aMule a multi-platform application. I say in theory because wxWidgets has its quirks.

aMule on Mac uses wxMac, which does not use GTK+. Usually, GTK+ applications do not select their font, they leave that choice to the theme manager. That way, all applications can share a consistent look. That includes the font. So, your question is ill posed, you should ask if anyone knows what fonts wxMac or the equivalent Mac theme manager (remember, I know nothing about Macs) uses. In any case, if the fonts are still your problem, other applications should be giving you trouble too, not only aMule.

You should probably look for some help on the Mac forums, look for Lionel or Wuiscke.

You say aMule still crashes. If the crash log is different, you can post it here and maybe I can give you some more information.

[ken]

To my knowledge, wxMac uses only variations of the "System Font" and the "Label Font".  With current Mac OS X standard interface, these are both based on Lucida Grande (both bold and regular).

However, if your searches involve non-Roman characters (e.g. Korean or Russian), that font may not include glyphs for the characters.  In that case, the text system falls back to one of the fonts which do include those characters.  So, there's no simple answer to your question.  Depending on which characters need to be displayed, the text system can pick any appropriate font.