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From: cmcmanis%pepper@Sun.COM (Chuck McManis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: following the sliding prop gadget
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Date: 3 Oct 88 03:57:36 GMT
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In article <2738@sugar.uu.net> peter@sugar.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes:
> I don't know. I was trying to do the same thing with a GetMsg/ReplyMsg loop
> just before I closed any window, but I still got occasional gurus on closing
> a window. I finally gave up and went back to multiple IDCMPs.

Note that there is a bug in DeleteLayer() or some such name in the ROM that
can cause occasional crashes when a window is closed. The bug is that Layers
frees some memory, and then uses it. Thus typically you would tickle this 
bug when closing windows while another task was doing memory allocations.
The program SetPatch on the 1.3 disks patches this bug. 

>		Peter da Silva  `-_-'  peter@sugar.uu.net


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