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From: tgingric@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Tyler S Gingrich)
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Subject: Re: Are Icon and Scene broken? YES!!!
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Date: 22 Jun 91 00:12:58 GMT
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In article <1991Jun21.203210.28951@pensoft.uucp> pensoft!wesley@cs.utexas.edu (Wesley C Smith) writes:
>Icon is indeed broken!!

It's the most twitchy app which ships on the NeXT.  

BUT REMEMBER....... 
	1) It's a non-supported demo app.
	2) It was written by Keith O. for Keith O. to use (we're just lucky
	   we get to use it at all).
	3) NeXT doesn't want to compete with independent developers and if
	   icon was a perfect app, nobody could write something better....
	  (So get busy, we need something better!!)
 
>
> It seems like the programmer did not initialize any variables. 

Forgot to do a [super init]; WOW, send him back to dev camp.....fifty-
thousand lashes with a wet noodle.....
  
[list of ways to coredump Icon removed...]

>It may also useful to set your coredumpsize to 0. 

from the command line:

	dwrite Workspace CoreLimit 0
  
>
>As far as lack of documentation, I have found that a mac user will have good  
>guesses as to what the Icons mean and is a great help in learing to use Icon.  
>Once you initialize the variables and figure out the strange icons Icon isn't  
>too bad.
>

Again, it's a free non-supported app.  Quit your bitchin and write a better
one with easy to use icons, and lots of useful documentation....


Tyler