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From: andy@cbmvax.UUCP (Andy Finkel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Re:DPaint Bug ??
Message-ID: <7793@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 31 Aug 89 14:15:41 GMT
References: <720@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca> <13418@well.UUCP>
Reply-To: andy@cbmvax.UUCP (Andy Finkel)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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In article <13418@well.UUCP> shf@well.UUCP (Stuart H. Ferguson) writes:
>+-- lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips) writes:
>| There is no apparent pattern to the failure. I can boot it up, selecting
>| 320*200, 32 colour, and have the menu not show when selected. As I say, it is
>| there, since I can see the subitems when the mouse is pulled down in the area
>| where the menu should be.
>
>I would bet there is an Intuition scenario that can reproduce this.  It may
>not be a bug since the application may need to be doing something funny as
>well.  Anyone have *any* idea what this is?

The last time I saw this was under very low chip memory conditions.  Intuition
was not able to get the memory it needed to display the entire menu;
but did have enough chip memory available to display the (smaller)
sub-menu.

		andy

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