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From: ragg0270@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Richard Alan Gerber)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: Anyone Seen the New WordPerfect?
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Date: 15 Feb 91 15:38:06 GMT
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peter@cbmvax.commodore.com (Peter Cherna) writes:

>In article <1991Feb14.023306.6105@hoss.unl.edu> 231b3678@fergvax.unl.edu (Phil Dietz) writes:

>>Well, I THINK I have  a conflicting task.  Supposedly PopUpMenu craps
>>out Word Perfect's "Professional" programming....             

>Any program that does pop up menus on the Workbench screen has to
>be very clever to cover most of the cases.  From our perspective,
>it looks to be somewhere between difficult and impossible to cover
>every last case.  So when you use such a utility, you must understand
>that it may not work with all software out there.  That doesn't imply
>anything about that software.  WordPerfect may be doing something
>unusual, but perfectly legal.

>>Phil Dietz

>     Peter
>--
>     Peter Cherna, Software Engineer, Commodore-Amiga, Inc.

I may be showing my ignorance, but here goes:
I tend to agree that this WP update is poor and poorly written. Another
"for instance" is the way fonts are handled on the previewer. You can
change the screen font in the program. But try changing back and forth
between fonts a few times. You will notice that more and more fonts
keep appearing in the font requester. Why? I have only very little
system programming experience, but it appears that each time you
change fonts a new copy of that font is copied into memory. So by
changing back and forth from within the program you can get an unlimited
number of copies of a font in memory. I've seen more than 10 "topaz
9" fonts to choose from in the requester. Jeezh, does anybody try out
these programs before they're released?

Regards,
Richard
gerber@rigel.astro.uiuc.edu