Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cornell!uw-beaver!ubc-cs!van-bc! From: lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Re:DPaint Bug ?? Message-ID: <733@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca> Date: 29 Aug 89 20:18:43 GMT Lines: 31 Return-Path: To: van-bc!rnews In <19351@unix.cis.pittsburgh.edu>, ejkst@unix.cis.pittsburgh.edu (Eric J. Kennedy) writes: >In article <714@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca> lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips) writes: >>>>The 'Project' menu >>>>will not even show up (except for subitems) if I select 320*200, 32 colour. > >>I am referring to when the 'Project' menu does not show up at all when >>selected. It is there, since I can move the mouse down and various subitems pop >>up where they would be when it's working right. It does not always do this, >>but when it does, it's irritating (to put it kindly). > >Wait a minute, that has nothing to do with Dpaint. I've seen this >behavior in lots of programs, always when there's insufficient chip ram >to render the menu. It's probably just Intuition's way of handling low >memory situations. (If there's not enough chip ram to render the menu, >there sure isn't enough to put up a warning requester!) Closing or >shrinking some windows usually cures this problem for me. But I don't >have Dpaint III. Maybe the problem is that it's too much of a chip ram >hog... Could be. In all my years on the AMiga, this is the first time I've seen anything at all like it. -larry -- The Mac? Oh, that's just like a computer, only slower. +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | // Larry Phillips | | \X/ lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca -or- uunet!van-bc!lpami!lphillips | | COMPUSERVE: 76703,4322 -or- 76703.4322@compuserve.com | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+