Conflicts with other programs

By their nature, system extensions, which are active all the time your Mac is running, may occasionally come into conflict with your applications or with other system extensions or control panels. Apollo has been extensively tested and most of the few conflicts which became apparent have been fixed. However, it has obviously not been possible to use Apollo with every one of the thousands of Macintosh applications which are commercially available.

Those conflicts which are known but which have not been solved are listed below. If you find other conflicts, please report them.

AppleShare 3.0
If you activate Apollo’s Preferences dialog when AppleShare 3.0 is frontmost, you will get a system crash. This appears to be a result of odd behaviour by AppleShare 3.0. The solution is to switch to another application before changing Apollo’s Preferences.

Suitcase II 1.2.xx
If you are running Suitcase II version 1.2.xx under system 7, load Apollo with “icons in menus” unchecked and then check and uncheck Apollo’s “icons in menus” checkbox, saving changes each time, the generic desk accessory icons which Suitcase uses in the Apple menu will be replaced by a random selection of dots until you next restart. This conflict is temporary and purely cosmetic.

AutoDoubler 1.0.x
If you are using a communications program, AutoDoubler will not automatically decompress files when they are opened. The rationale for this is that you will want to send files compressed, to save time. The side effect is that if you want to use Apollo to start an application that is compressed and you have a comms program active, AutoDoubler will not decompress the application, which therefore will not load properly. This is acknowledged to be a fault in AutoDoubler, and appears to have been fixed in AutoDoubler 2. The solution is to switch to another application before using Apollo to start a compressed application. Apollo will work around this problem for some comms packages.

Adobe Type Reunion
Apollo should load before Type Reunion. Unless you have renamed either of them, this will happen automatically, since extensions are loaded in alphabetical order.

ResEdit
Although written by Apple, ResEdit does funny things when it changes the order of its windows. The window-switching menu popup is disabled when ResEdit is the frontmost application, and ResEdit never has a submenu of windows in the application switching menu.