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10.6: Microsoft Office now works well with Spaces
Authored by: palahala on Sep 07, '09 12:01:12PM
Yup, I think it was Apple's problem. Some Microsoft engineer explained in much detail a year ago, from which quoted:

When people talk about the "Formatting Palette" in Office 2008, they usually mean the Toolbox window. The Toolbox is actually two separate windows, bound together by Carbon Window Groups. The first window has the title bar and the row of buttons across the top (the buttons that toggle between the Formatting Palette, the Scrapbook, the Reference Tools, the Object Palette, and whatever else is there that I can't remember off the top of my head.) That first window is a true floating window created by OS APIs. The second window is everything below that row of buttons, and is the instantiation of one of those toolbox items. These windows are slightly customized, in that we tell the OS to create them with no border or shadow, again through OS APIs.
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The Carbon Window Group APIs allow for very rich and precise control over how windows are presented to the user, and gave us the ability to combine UI from a variety of sources in our codebase with minimal rearchitecting of each of the individual components.
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We have long-term plans to overhaul the entire architecture of the Toolbox and all its clients to use Cocoa, but that didn't happen in 2008. The Cocoa AppKit window APIs do not yet contain functionality that supports the full richness of window management features that the Carbon APIs do. The Toolbox and its use of Carbon Window Groups were introduced in Office 2004 and predate both Spaces and Exposé.
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For now, you'll have to wait for Apple to release an update to or new version of OS X where Spaces works with apps that use Carbon Window Groups.


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10.6: Microsoft Office now works well with Spaces
Authored by: frgough on Sep 08, '09 07:06:00AM

Translation:

We're still writing carbon, even though its a dead API because that let's us port our Windows code more easily.



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10.6: Microsoft Office now works well with Spaces
Authored by: Brock Lee on Sep 08, '09 11:29:49AM

Thank you for the explanation.

Thankfully I only rarely use Microsoft Office. But I've dreaded launching it each and every time because of the problems.



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