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From: peirce@outpost.UUCP (Michael Peirce)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: More memory to DeskPaint/Draw Das under MultiFinder ?
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Date: 10 Mar 91 02:18:19 GMT
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In article <3955@ac.dal.ca>, seals@ac.dal.ca writes:
> 
> Hello Netters !
> 
>   before I spend the bucks to phone Zedcor Technical Support, I wonder if
> anyone has a suggestion as to how I might increase the memory partition of
> the DeskPaint/Draw DAs under MultiFinder ?
>   Even using the HeapTool CDEV to increase the System heap to a large size
> (about 50% free memory), I can still get only about 14 to 20K of memory
> available in DeskDraw - and frequent bombs back to Finder level.  The DAs
> work fine in Finder, but do not seem able to "grab" the extra memory they
> need in MultiFinder.  Am I crippled by their inability to handle large
> images in MultiFinder ? (IF you call images larger than 20K large   :-/
>   Thanks in advance for any help !

When you run DAs in MultiFinder you are running them with the DA Handler.
For some reason, when you do a "Get Info" on this file, the Finder
doesn't let you change it's MultiFinder memory parition size.  But
this file does have a SIZE resource which determines how much memory
it gets when it's run.

You can edit this directly using ResEdit.

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Another, easier way to do this is using AppSizer.  It will let you
change the DA Handler's MultiFinder memory partition size as you 
launch a DA.  It will even let you make this permament using its SAVE
command.

AppSizer is shareware and is available in all the usual places (SUMEX,
CompuServe, and it came in over comp.binaries.mac a while back).

-- michael, author of AppSizer


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