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From: marshall@sdd.hp.com (Marshall Clow)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: System 7.0 compatible stuff
Message-ID: <1991Apr26.220236.8364@sdd.hp.com>
Date: 26 Apr 91 22:02:36 GMT
References: <3102@sparko.gwu.edu> <10200001@hpnmdla.hp.com>
Organization: Hewlett Packard, San Diego Division
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In article <10200001@hpnmdla.hp.com> dan@hpnmdla.hp.com (Dan Pleasant) writes:
>>Well, I'm probably the only person who uses this particular app, but FullWrite
>>Professional 1.0.1 is fully compatible with System 7 (and I use it very exten-
>>sively and "harshly," if you will).
>
>I use FullWrite 1.5, and it has at least one problem with 7.0b4.  If
>you try to set columns (click to "Set Margins" button in the Page
>Setup dialog) the dialog which normally appears does not.  The menus
>are disabled, and Fullwrite acts as though the dialog is there, but it
>isn't.  Command-period will back out of this state, but you can't set
>the margins.
>
>Dan Pleasant
>

That is not a system 7 specific bug. The problem is that FW checks the location
of the page-setup window using port^.portBits.bounds. Unfortuantely, this
assumes that the page setup window is a black and white window. Under System 7
the LaserWriter ( and probably ImageWriter, et. al. ) use color windows for
page-setup and print dialogs, so FW gets a bogus rectangle for the location
of the window, and centers the "Margins" dialog in some random place
( usually off the screen ). If you have a two-page display, you can sometimes
see the dialog. So, the dialog is there, just off the screen.

Marshall Clow
Hewlett Packard Color Imaging Division
marshall@sdd.hp.com
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