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From: matthews@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Jim Matthews)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Odd Interaction Between Notifcation Manager and MS Word 4
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Date: 9 Feb 90 21:28:29 GMT
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We ran into this bug last fall, when we were distributing Word 4 and our
mail system (which uses the Notification Manager) to our freshmen.
MicroSoft pointed the finger at Apple (something about the NM not
preserving DAFont...) but they did give us a workaround to keep Word's
menus from being corrupted.  Just put the following in your NM response
procedure:

	{ Kludge to fix MS Word 4.0 problem }
	GetPort(ourPort);
	oldFont := ourPort^.txFont;
	for i := 1 to 13 do
	begin
		TextFont(i);
		if CharWidth(' ') > 0 then ;
	end;
	TextFont(oldFont);

This apparently flushes the font width cache and makes life better.  But
the notification dialog is still in Geneva....

Jim Matthews
Dartmouth Software Development