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From: pdubois@sandstorm.Berkeley.EDU (Paul DuBois)
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Subject: Problem with 6.0.7, si, or program?
Summary: plea for help from novice programmer
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Date: 16 Mar 91 06:13:49 GMT
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Please help!  I am following the book Macintosh Programming Primer, and
have run into a very frustrating problem.  In one of the tutorial programs,
Mondrian (for those who have the book), there is a recurring system error
(coprocessor not installed) generated by the call PaintOval(&myRect)

However, the error persists even when using PseudoFPU which normally works
very nicely for me.  I belive someone on the net said that the system error
type does not always match the real problem and I believe this to be the
case.  Either way, though, I'm stuck at a dead end.

Here is a short summary of what has gone on before the call to PaintOval() :
ToolBoxInit() : calls InitGraf, InitFonts, FlushEvents, InitWindows,
InitMenus, TEInit, InitDialogs, InitCursor
then WindowInit(): GetNewWindow(...), ShowWindow(myWind), SetPort(myWind)

then myRect is initialized to some nice, reasonable values (like 5 and 10);
I'm not trying to draw outside my boundaries, and THEN the fatal
PaintOval(&myRect) is called.

The WIND resource being used worked fine with a previous program (a Hello
World :) so I don't think that's part of the problem.  Any help would be
greatly appreciated!

pdubois@ocf.berkeley.edu