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From: araftis@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (Alex Raftis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Problems with ORCA/M editor
Message-ID: <2742e491.e15@petunia.CalPoly.EDU>
Date: 15 Nov 90 18:55:13 GMT
References: <8909@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>
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Organization: Cal Poly State Univ,CSC Dept,San Luis Obispo,CA 93407
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In article <8909@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> benji@euler.Berkeley.EDU (Benji Rudiak-Gould) writes:
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>I'm using ORCA/M for the GS version 1.1b. I've had no problems with it until
>recently. Suddenly, for no apparent reason, the editor has stopped working.
>When I try to edit a file, about 90% of the time, the editor displays "Illegal
>text data" and then either 1. Hangs, 2. Clears the screen, displays
>"Memory Manager: An invalid handle was given", and hangs, or 3. Returns me
>to the shell, without letting me edit the file. The length of the file I'm
>trying to edit doesn't seem to have...

I had a similar problem, and I think I found the cause. It lies with Quick
Draw, believe it or not. If you're using a desktop application the uses the
new features of QuickDraw, especially memory shawdowing and fastport aware,
then when you go into the APW/Orca enviroment, the editor will crash. I can't
explain why this happens, but I noticed it when I was making one of my own 
applications that set these feature on in QuickDraw. If you've got an appli-
cation that causes this to happen, then it probably uses resources, so make a
backup of the program, then modify it with a resources editor (like Genesys)
and change the StartUpTools resource to not use fastport/shawdowing. Note that
you will also have to change Genesys. I've done this to a couple of programs
and Edit's propensity for crashes has gone down a lot, although it does still
crash from time to time if I'm heavily using the APW resource compiler.




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