Mac 5.5 Display Problems

[geekybryan@gmail.com]

Good Evening,

I use the Mac version of BA. I upgraded to 5.5, and immediately noticed the outer borders of the program recognized the dark mode mac setting. Unfortunately, it caused a lot of other issues with the software. I have rolled back to 5.4 for now. The tabs on the lower right of the dictionary window and others are unreadable. The tabs are light grey, but the text is white. It looks as though the text is set for dark mode, but the tabs never changed with the outer borders.

I'm not complaining. I'm merely reporting these events so you are aware of the issues.

I'm a Senior Systems Analyst and Azure Cloud Architect. I'm using a Mac 2019 i9 Macbook Pro 16" w/16gb RAM, MacOS Ventura 13.1.

Thank you!

[Tim]

Thanks for the report.

The issue is Bible Analyzer is not very compatible with the system dark mode. It has some non-native controls (such as the tabs) that do not respond well to the system change.

We hope to make the dark mode available in a future version, but that is a pretty big job. Bigger than one would expect.

[geekybryan@gmail.com]

Hi All.

I found a work-around for Mac version of BA while the system is in dark mode. I tested on MacOS 26.0.1 Taho. It allows the system to stay in dark mode, but changes mode to lite for BA only. Very helpful for me.

Close BA first

From the Mac terminal do this:

defaults write "org.pythonmac.unspecified.BibleAnalyzer5" NSRequiresAquaSystemAppearance -bool YES

Open BA and voila!

God Bless!

[Tim]

Thanks!