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From: chas@gtss.UUCP (Charles Cleveland)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Setfont 1.1 to Pearl crashes Preferences
Message-ID: <118@gtss.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 21-May-87 18:49:46 EDT
Article-I.D.: gtss.118
Posted: Thu May 21 18:49:46 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 23-May-87 13:08:22 EDT
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Reply-To: chas@gtss.UUCP (Charles Cleveland)
Organization: Georgia Tech School of Physics
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Keywords: SetFont Pearl Preferences guru 1.2 bug

In article <6803@amdahl.amdahl.com> kim@amdahl.amdahl.com (Kim DeVaughn) writes:
>In article <117@gtss.UUCP>, chas@gtss.UUCP (Charles Cleveland) writes:
>>         Perhaps this is a well-known phenomenon, but not only did I not
				...
>I'd given up playing with fonts, and was resigned to using Topaz, until I
>came across v2.0 of Andy's SetFont program.  Seems like all the problems
>and crashes that I had had with SetFont v1.1 are gone (well, v2.0 doesn't
>crash *my* machine with "pearl" like v1.1 did, anyway).
				...
Thanks Kim.  I immediately implememted your version.  However, the name in
your docs is Dave Haynie (Andy F. is nowhere mentioned) whereas the SetFont 1.1
I had was from M. McInerny.  Anyway, while the docs for Setfont 2.0 (Haynie)
say
	One final problem is that some applications ask the WorkBench screen
    to close when they start up.  It'll close if there's nothing else open on
    it, but when it re-opens, it'll restart with Preferences-selected font, not
    the SetFont selected font....  The simplest way to prevent this is to leave
    some ... window open, which will preven other application from closing
    the WorkBench screen....
in fact Preferences still wipes out all choices (WINDOW TITLES SCREEN) offered
by SetFonts 2.0 (Haynie) except WINDOW as far as I can tell so far, even if
an extra window is left open before Preferences is called.  I can't believe
Preferences tries to close WorkBench.

But what the hell, 2.0 (Haynie) hasn't crashed my machine yet.

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