Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!ut-sally!husc6!cmcl2!rutgers!cbmvax!andy From: andy@cbmvax.UUCP (Andy Finkel) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Design flaw/bug in Intuition menus. Message-ID: <2134@cbmvax.UUCP> Date: Fri, 17-Jul-87 11:30:53 EDT Article-I.D.: cbmvax.2134 Posted: Fri Jul 17 11:30:53 1987 Date-Received: Wed, 22-Jul-87 02:28:02 EDT References: <372@sugar.UUCP> Reply-To: andy@cbmvax.UUCP (Andy Finkel) Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA Lines: 34 Keywords: amiga intuition menus bug lost selections In article <372@sugar.UUCP> peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter DaSilva) writes: >I think I have encountered a bug in intuition menus. I discovered this >when trying to get the baud rate right late at night. > >To reconstruct: >Holding the menu button down, use the select button to click on 3 or >more selections, then back to the second one you selected. > >Observe that all selections between the first and second time that >selection is selected are not seen by the application. That's because >intuition overwrote the NextSelect field of the selection the second >time it was hit. Yes, its a bug. It looks like a side effect on the Intuition "remove duplicate menu IntuiMessages" code. I'll enter it on the bug list. >Is there any reason there is no UserData or MenuId field in Menu and MenuItem >structures? I realise I can add one to the end, but it's inconvenient: >necessitationg using a superstructure or a custom definition. No reason, of course, just the designer of Intuition didn't put it in. :-( >-- Peter da Silva `-_-' ...!seismo!soma!uhnix1!sugar!peter (I said, NO PHOTOS!) -- andy finkel {ihnp4|seismo|allegra}!cbmvax!andy Commodore-Amiga, Inc. "The goal of Computer Science is to build something that will last at least until we've finished building it." Any expressed opinions are mine; but feel free to share. I disclaim all responsibilities, all shapes, all sizes, all colors.