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From: bob@accuvax.nwu.edu (Bob Hablutzel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Another dumb question
Message-ID: <10050087@accuvax.nwu.edu>
Date: 4 Mar 89 01:05:04 GMT
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Organization: Northwestern U, Evanston IL, USA
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>   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.

Are you calling ModalDialog or DialogSelect to handle update events in the
dialog window?

>   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?

Are you possibly having problems with a dangling dereferenced pointer, which
gets fixed when there is more memory cause the resource doesn't have to move?

Bob Hablutzel	Wildwood Software	BOB@NUACC.ACNS.NWU.EDU