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From: fnahf@rose.uib.no (FLESCHE, HARALD)
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Subject: Re: Dialog within an INIT
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Date: 18 Apr 91 02:28:51 GMT
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In article <1991Mar21.183154.22245@hubcap.clemson.edu>, mcmac@hubcap.clemson.edu (Scott McAlister) writes...
>In an INIT that I am writing, I want to display a Dialog Box when I trap
>on MountVol.  I keep getting a "Bus Error" (using 6.0.7 on a IIsi). I am
>using THINK C 4.02.


I just wrote an init that displays a dialog upon startup, yes, I know -
one of those "orwellian" inits (see tn 256). It bombed every time I
referenced the dialogPtr returned by NewDialog. After trying *everything*
I remembered reading an article written by the programmer of "initcdev".
He gives the solution: clear the DeskHook global early in your code
(i.e. DeskHook = 0L). If that doesn't work try to allocate more memory,
by increasing the value of your "sysz" resource.

Tor Olaussen
Nansen Remote Sensing Center
University of Bergen
Bergen, Norway