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From: s37775d@taltta.hut.fi (Pandy (A. Holmberg))
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: ResEdit
Message-ID: <1990Dec2.173058.28944@santra.uucp>
Date: 2 Dec 90 17:30:58 GMT
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In article <6698@drutx.ATT.COM> jdon@drutx.ATT.COM (BookJD) writes:
>In article <1990Nov13.030220.25624@portia.Stanford.EDU>, ralphm@elaine27.stanford.edu (Ralph Melton) writes:
>> 
>> ResEdit 2.0b2 breaks with a bus error every time I attempt to edit a
>> 'MENU' resource.  Turning off all inits doesn't help the problem.  This
>
>The two ideas I have heard for avoiding crashes with this version
>are:
>
>1) Allways run in Multifinder (I don't know why).
>2) Increase the size of the application RAM for ResEdit by afew
>hundred K (using the Get Info box - the RAM requirement field in
>the lower right corner).
>
>This seems to eliminate most crashes.

	I think I have the answer to this problem. The problem seems to be
the ResEdit Preferences file in the System Folder. If the ResEdit Prefernces
file has been created with another version of ResEdit than the one currently
in use, the program gets confused. I have only noticed this problem when
editing MENU resources.
	So what you do is:
	DELETE THE RESEDIT PREFERENCES FILE BEFORE USING RESEDIT!

Of course if you have customized your ResEdit you might want to copy some of
your resources in the ResEdit Prefs file first.

	Pandy

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       /I I   Andreas "Pandy" Holmberg             pandy@spiff.hut.fi
      /-I-I   Helsinki University of Technology    pandy@otax.hut.fi
     /  I I   Faculty of Electrical Engineering    s37775d@taltta.hut.fi
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