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From: drew@cat46.CS.WISC.EDU (Shawn Drew)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Another dumb question
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Date: 2 Mar 89 23:26:21 GMT
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Ok, here's an easy question:

   How come when I put up a new dialog (telling the user that calculations
   are being performed) the dialog box never gets completely drawn?  The
   outline is shown, but the contents are never drawn.  It's kind of a
   waste to have an empty dialog box on the screen.

We aught to make a newsgroup for really obvious mac programming questions
like the above, as well as one for the really hard questions.

Here's another, not-so-easy question.

   When I read individual strings from a big (around 300 entries) STR#, I
   eventually run into garbage, although they look fine in ResEdit.  When
   I recently upgraded to a 2 meg machine, the problem disappears.  Odd,
   wouldn't you say?

BTW, I'm using LSP 2.0, System 6.0.2 on a 2 meg SE.

Thanks for any light you can shed on these puzzles.



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