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From: mxmora@unix.SRI.COM (Matt Mora)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: 7.0b4 bugs was( Re The NEW desktop)
Message-ID: <23035@unix.SRI.COM>
Date: 9 Apr 91 17:49:48 GMT
References: <1991Mar26.210153.8372@umiami.ir.miami.edu> <50865@apple.Apple.COM>
Reply-To: mxmora@unix.sri.com (Matt Mora)
Organization: SRI International, Menlo Park, CA
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In article <50865@apple.Apple.COM> nerm@Apple.COM (Dean Yu) writes:

>  If I'm not getting my Finder dialogs confused, I think that particular
>dialog now says "Updating disk for new system software" or something like
>that.  But that dialog does still exist when you actuall do rebuild the
>desktop.

Theses bugs happened on a Mac II and  Mac IIx with 5 megs of memory and no 
inits. Just a standard system install. To a  harddisk with no system folder.

I would have posted these to Applelink but my account expired. ( Can't afford
it)

Time for 7.0b4 bugs. 

Finder bug

When that dialog box comes up select "About Help Balloons" in the Help
menu and the dismiss the alert. Opps! the bargraph is now being drawn
on the desktop. I guess someone wasn't reading the UMPG were it states
that you should set to a known vaild  Grafport before you draw. Actually this
happens in the file copy dialog also, so I imagine it happens any time the 
finder uses the moveable modal dialog box. 

Page Set or Print dialog box bug. 

Select pagesetup in the finder. Sometimes it does not grey out the edit menu.
If it doesn't, select any of the standard editing commands. All the mac
does is beep at you. I don't know which is the bug. Should I not be able to 
access the menu when a modal dialog box is up or should I be allowed to do 
the standard editing commands from the menu. 

Fatal bug (this one I haven't repeated because I really need to get some work 
done and not debug system 7.0 for Apple)

Open the control panels folder. Do a Select All. Select open from the file
menu. 

After about the third or fourth control panel was opened the finder started to
complain "The control panel is damaged or not enough memory" I clicked ok
because that was the only option. As it continued to try to open more it
complained some more and then finally crashed. 

Anytime I drop something into the apple menu, a grey pattern fills the rounded
upper corners of the screen.  


There were a few others that I can't think of at the moment. I will post them 
when I remember.

Matt



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