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From: paisley@ccvr1.cc.ncsu.edu (Mike Paisley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Help with Mac Prog. Primer program
Message-ID: <1991Apr29.234725.2317@ncsu.edu>
Date: 29 Apr 91 23:47:25 GMT
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As a new Mac programmer I was working through some of the demo programs in the
book "Macintosh Programming Primer" by Dave Mark and Cartwright Reed. I did all
the necessaries in setting up the "Timer" program from Chapter 5, but it dies. 
Running the debugger reveals a bus error when it tries to execute the line

	AddResMenu(gFontMenu,'FONT');

in the MenuBarInit routine.  I rechecked all the created resources and
everything appears to be fine, from what is shown in the book. gFontMenu is a
global variable declared as a MenuHandle.  If I comment out this line, the
program works just fine, though it doesn't show any fonts (of course) or styles
(not sure why on this one).  I feel like it is just a problem of syntax of the
call, but I don't have my copy of Inside Mac yet, so I'm at a loss. Anyone
tried this beastie and seen this problem?  

Please reply directly to me, as I don't read this newsgroup. (Not quite up to
it yet!)  I will post the answer if there is some interest.  Thanks.

Mike Paisley   paisley@ccvr1.cc.ncsu.edu   PAISLEY@NCSUMTE.BITNET