Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!att!linac!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!cs.utexas.edu!rice!uw-beaver!zephyr.ens.tek.com!tekchips!tekcrl!scotth From: scotth@rocco.labs.tek.com (Scott Herzinger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer Subject: System 7.0b1 apps crash when displaying "Want to save changes..." ? Message-ID: Date: 19 Nov 90 02:52:06 GMT Sender: news@tekchips.LABS.TEK.COM Distribution: na Organization: Tektronix Inc. Lines: 27 I've just gotten started playing around with 7.0b1. Have been, in general, pleasantly impressed, but have encountered one annoying problem which I wonder if others have seen and, hopefully, found a workaround for: When quitting an application without saving changes, the dialog confirming the quit starts to come up, but before drawing the text or any buttons, goes out of control, flickering the border wildly, as if it's being redrawn repeatedly. At the moment I remember AppleLink 5.1.1 and MS Word 4.00B exhibiting this behavior. Anybody else seen this? It's a pretty vanilla installation, with only these non-Apple oddities: drive is an external LaCie and printer driver is DeskWriter. The repeatable scenario is using AppleLink to read documentation in image files on the 7.0b1 CD (CD setup 3.0.1). When I quit AppleLink it displays diagnostic dialogs about not being able to save font (and some other resource, can't remember what) info, which is natural since the document is on a locked disk (CD-ROM). Then, if I've specified a font substitution, at the point when I think I'm being asked if I want to save the substitution, the flickering border dialog starts. It pauses while I hold the programmer's switch down; restarts when I release it. No mouse or keyboard events seem to get through; there is no visible evidence. Eventually I give up and reset. Thanks in advance for any info Scott Herzinger scotth%crl.labs.tek.com@relay.cs.net Computer Research Lab, Tektronix, Inc. PO Box 500 MS 50-662, Beaverton, OR 97077