GCOGHILL I emailed the developer about the APE situation, and received this reply (& permission to post his answer): Your negative opinion of APE is not based on facts. Some programs which use APE (such as most versions of Smart Scroll) might have errors in them which cause crashes or other problems, but APE itself is necessarily rock solid because of the depth at which it is installed in the system. A problem with APE itself would be immediately obvious, as in your Mac not starting at all. This happened *once* a few years ago, because of inadequate version checking that resulted in some people running a long outdated version. Unsanity has prevented this from occurring again by adding better version checking and an automatic updater. To put this one problem in perspective, remember that Mac OS X itself had similar accidents over the years, such as the infamous Panther FireWire bug which caused actual data loss. Loud and unwarranted negative comments about APE have only succeeded in making life unnecessarily difficult for Unsanity, as well as reducing their incentive to update APE for new versions of Mac OS X. This in turn has hurt thousands of Mac users who enjoy using the products APE makes possible. To answer your question, no, Smart Scroll does not use APE on 10.6, since APE is not available for 10.6. If and when a version becomes available, I'll likely switch Smart Scroll back to use it, provided it is still the best tool for the job.
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