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From: murat@farcomp.UUCP (Murat Konar)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Odd Interaction Between Notifcation Manager and MS Word 4
Message-ID: <144@farcomp.UUCP>
Date: 11 Feb 90 04:57:41 GMT
References: <1990Feb9.040754.16705@caen.engin.umich.edu>
Reply-To: murat@farcomp.UUCP (Murat Konar)
Organization: Farallon Computing Inc. Berkeley, CA
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In article <1990Feb9.040754.16705@caen.engin.umich.edu> mystone@mondo.engin.umich.edu (Dean Yu) writes:
[stuff axed]
>  I launch Microsoft Word, and I go over to another computer, and blast a
>message over to the machine running Word, and the NM dialog comes up.  But lo
>and behold!  The text isn't Chicago, it's Geneva!  I look at the menus, and
>they're ALL in Geneva now.  No more Chicago style menus.

[stuff axed]
>  So it seems that Microsoft (bless their hearts) is making some obscure
>assumption about the state of the system when their program starts up.  Or
>they're messing with something they're not supposed to somewhere.
>  Neat, eh?

I wouldn't put it past the ding-dongs at Microsoft to be drawing in the window
managers port instead of the window.  I had a weird problem where I wrote a 
WDEF that had a structure region that was smaller than the content region.  In
most applications this worked fine.  All drawing to the window was clipped to
the structure region.  Except for (TA-DAH!) Microsoft Turd and Microsoft 
Eggsmell.  

Try this:  Launch Microsoft Turd and change the font to something other than
Geneva.  Then blast your message.  If the menus show this other font, then 
Microsoft is probably drawing in the window manager port (naughty, naugty).

Later.



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