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From: covertr@force.UUCP (Richard E. Covert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: GEM help needed
Summary: MWC Manual has errors!!
Message-ID: <46c13647.14a1f@force.UUCP>
Date: 10 Nov 89 15:38:02 GMT
Article-I.D.: force.46c13647.14a1f
References: <30200010@inmet> <30200013@inmet>
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In article <30200013@inmet>, hedger@inmet.inmet.com writes:
> 
> Anyway, that's the answer to this problem and I am going to call
> Mark Williams and let them know they have what appears to be a 
> documentation error.
> | Keith Hedger :  {...!}uunet!inmet!hedger   hedger@inmet.inmet.com |


I found another MWC manual error. If you lookup "form_do" you see that
MWC says to pass a ZERO if the dialog box doesn't have any editable fields.
Actually that MUST Be a negative one (-1) according to the Bantam book
of GEM/AES programming.

Has anyone else found any errors in the MWC Version 3.0 manual??

Rich Covert

P.S. I found a VERY serious bug in Michtron's WERCS Resource Editor. DO
NOT use the UNDESCORE CHARACTER (_) in object names. I am writing a GEM
interface to a program and I kept blasting my HRD file while using WERCS.
HRD is where WERCS stores its internal info about your RSC file. Anyway,
once I stopped using the underscore char in my names WERCS hasn't bombed
once. This hapens on a 520ST with TOS 1.0. My Mega ST with TOS 1.4 is in
the shop so I can't determine if the bug is the infamous TOS 1.0 bug, or
if it is in WERCS. But, just be warned about the underscore char and WERCS.
Other then that, I really like WERCS. It has a test mode where you can see
what you buttons return. It has a utility to convert DEGAS pics into icons.
a really nice package.

But, of course it is nice, it came from Europe!!!
rec