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From: andy@cbmvax.cbm.UUCP (Andy Finkel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Menu bug
Message-ID: <1971@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 4-Jun-87 16:16:50 EDT
Article-I.D.: cbmvax.1971
Posted: Thu Jun  4 16:16:50 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 9-Jun-87 03:08:32 EDT
References: <609@puff.WISC.EDU>
Reply-To: andy@cbmvax.UUCP (Andy Finkel)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
Lines: 25
Keywords: DPaint II or Intuition?

In article <609@puff.WISC.EDU> beilke@puff.WISC.EDU (Matthew Beilke) writes:
>
>      I have experienced a 'bug' in the way the Amiga handles large menus.
>
>      Now that there are a reasonable amount of fonts available, I thought I 
>would play with them, so I put them all in fonts:, then I brought up
>DPaint II, to look at them.  However, in XXX by 200 mode the menu is longer
>than the screen, and Amy doesn't like it (I am visted by my friend the 
>Guru).  My question is: (1) Does DPaint II have a design flaw in that it
>did not anticipate large menus, or (2) is there something inherently wrong
>with intuition?
This is a Dpaint bug.  (which is shared by other programs).  If the programmer
feeds Intuition a bad menu structure, Intuition attempts to display
it with predictable results.  Notepad, for instance, has code to set up
the font menu for large numbers of fonts.  (Unfortunately we recently discovered
that it breaks at about 100 fonts, but that's a different problem)

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