Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!apple!amdahl!kevin From: kevin@uts.amdahl.com (Kevin Clague) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Re:DPaint Bug ?? Message-ID: Date: 2 Sep 89 16:58:00 GMT References: <720@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca> <13418@well.UUCP> Reply-To: kevin@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com (Kevin Clague) Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale, CA 94086 Lines: 36 In article <13418@well.UUCP> shf@well.UUCP (Stuart H. Ferguson) writes: >+-- lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips) writes: >| Sorry, I didn't go back and look at the menu itself while posting. It is the >| 'Picture' menu, in the position that CBM recommends be called 'Project'. > >Tsk, tsk. > >| 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. > >Ha! I've seen this! It happened to me a few times when I was developing >Intuition applications. There was no apparent pattern, no way to repeat >it and no way to be really sure it was gone. It just sort of went away >"by itself" and didn't seem to come back. > >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? >-- > Stuart Ferguson (shf@well.UUCP) > Action by HAVOC (ferguson@metaphor.com) It's always dangerous following up when your 188 articles behind but... I've had this happen when I'm low on chip RAM. Kevin -- UUCP: kevin@uts.amdahl.com or: {sun,decwrl,hplabs,pyramid,seismo,oliveb}!amdahl!kevin DDD: 408-737-5481 USPS: Amdahl Corp. M/S 249, 1250 E. Arques Av, Sunnyvale, CA 94086 [ Any thoughts or opinions which may or may not have been expressed ] [ herein are my own. They are not necessarily those of my employer. ]