On Jun 20, 2012, at 3:13 PM, Brian S wrote: > > On Jun 20, 2012, at 2:52 PM, Ken Shmidheiser wrote: > >> Ted noted: >> >>> At his request, I slid a note under the curtain, and he's having a glimpse into my world... Thanks! >> >> >> Indeed, Ted is running Snow Leopard. It appears the code I posted is not compatible with anything >> below Lion as I discovered after booting back into Snow Leopard and testing it. >> >> I have no idea why it fails in Snow Leopard. > All of those NSAlert method calls are OS X 10.3+. > I didn’t see: > > toolbox fn NSApplicationLoad = Boolean > fn NSApplicationLoad() > > in Ken’s posted code for running Cocoa in a Carbon app. > > Are there any Console log messages? One mystery: why it works in Lion without NSApplicationLoad(). AFAIK, that call should be required for any current OS X release. Brian S.