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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
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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!)


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