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From: raible@cbmvax.commodore.com (Bob Raible - LSI Design)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Re: Intuition bug
Message-ID: <19855@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 14 Mar 91 14:18:32 GMT
References: <225@tymix.Tymnet.COM>
Reply-To: raible@cbmvax.commodore.com (Bob Raible - LSI Design)
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Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <225@tymix.Tymnet.COM> jdresser@altair.Tymnet.com (Jay Dresser) writes:
>(Here's a copy of a message I sent to CBM)
>
>As long as you're releasing a new version of the operating system, I
>thought I might tell you about a nifty bug that I discovered some years
>ago.  Since it's so obvious, and easy to invoke, I assumed that you
>already knew about it.  But my friends think you may not, so to be safe
>I'll tell you.
>
>It's the "drag the window off the screen" bug.  By using nothing more
>than the normal Intuition controls, you can make the windows drag off
>the screen and, if you do it right, meet the guru.
>
>All you do is this:
>
>Place the mouse over the dragbar of any window (I've only tried this
>with WorkBench, but I assume it would work with other screens).  Click
>and hold the left mouse button down.  While holding the mouse button
>down, press left-Amiga-N or -M.  Nothing appears to change, but you can
>now drag the window off the screen.  Moving left and right you will see
>the edge that went off the screen wrap around to the other side.  In
>most cases you can drag it back onto the screen and release the mouse
>button without harm.  If you drag off the top or bottom, you will trash
>the memory lists and crash the machine immediately.
>
>Pretty neat, huh?  No special code, nothing fancy, just the keyboard
>and mouse.  Works every time.  It seems to me like it's something that
>shouldn't be allowed, so I hope you can fix this before the next
>release.  Happy bug hunting!
>
>Jay Dresser, jdresser@Tymnet.com

FYI I can't duplicate using 1.3 . Can you provide version numbers of KS & WB ???

PS: on my machine pressing left-amiga-n causes no apparent change when WB screen is already
in front, but left-amiga-m causes WB screen to scoot to the back(all while left mouse button is
depressed over the WB drag bar). This seems to differ from your statement.