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From: c160-bv@zooey.Berkeley.EDU (Warner Young)
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Subject: Re: GEM bugs
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Date: Sun, 7-Dec-86 23:52:11 EST
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In article <839@husc6.UUCP> grunau_b@husc4.UUCP (justin grunau) writes:
>
>Well, I can confirm that it was not the .RSC file of the TI desk accessory
> ....
>highlight the gadget as though it were selecting an icon instead of performing
>the close) -- I got it today, after only running one program (megaroids).

	I don't know about the TI accessory, since I haven't seen it, but
I don't see why Megaroids would cause this problem.  There does seem to be
a bug with GEM that causes it to think that the left button is depressed, even
after you let go.  That might be your problem.  It's happened to me before,
and it usually only takes one click to remove the problem.

>Luckily, this particular bug doesn't cause the system to crash and tends to
>go away fairly quickly (after you have clicked on the darn gadget enough times)
>so I guess it's not particularly destructive, except I am getting the feeling
>that there are all sorts of potential memory problems floating around (probably
>unreleased mallocs and so on) which could cause serious problems ...  it does
>give me a kind of feeling of impending doom whenever I use the system nowadays.

	I use my system fairly often, and I hardly ever have problems like
these.  Are you sure it isn't your computer itself?

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