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From: jap@convex.cl.msu.edu (Joe Porkka)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: Anyone Seen the New WordPerfect?
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Date: 15 Feb 91 21:33:04 GMT
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ragg0270@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Richard Alan Gerber) writes:

>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....             

>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

This is a bug in the AmigaOS. Its possible to avoid the problem, most
of the time.

It sound like they are using the OpenDiskFont() function as it is
documented in the 1.3 RKMS.
They probably should have caught on that there was a memory leak.

By the way, you can get those extra fonts to go away by trying 
to allocate  a lot of memory -> ie. they get purged normally by
library Expunges. (If you do a "loadwb -debug" you get a hidden menu,
to the right of the normal workbecnh menus. Pick the "flush" item)