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From: lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Screens flipping to non-interlace for no good reason
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Date: 1 May 90 12:08:31 GMT
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In <5651@sugar.hackercorp.com>, karl@sugar.hackercorp.com (Karl Lehenbauer) writes:
>I'm having a problem, although it could certainly be a bug in my stuff, where
>I'm trying to open different screens of different sizes and resolutions
>and calling ScreenToFront() on them a bunch, and opening and closing screens
>a bunch.
>
>The problem is, sometimes an interlaced screen that's already loaded will,
>when a ScreenToFront is done on that screen, come up as non-interlaced and
>only show half the picture in the normal screen area.
>
>I thought it was my code for sure until it happened to the workbench screen
>(I normally run with an interlace workbench).  A crash quickly follows.
>
>So, has anybody else seen this?  Peter thought he'd seen something on the
>net about it in the not too distant past.

Yes, it is an Intuition bug. There is a freely distributable patch floating
around called 'fixintuition' that will cure the problem.

-larry

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