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From: ejkst@cisunx.UUCP (Eric J. Kennedy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Intuition bug
Message-ID: <11654@cisunx.UUCP>
Date: 9 Aug 88 07:39:35 GMT
Reply-To: ejkst@unix.cis.pittsburgh.edu (Eric J. Kennedy)
Organization: Univ. of Pittsburgh, Comp & Info Sys
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This bug is driving me crazy.  In case you all don't know about it, let
me describe what little I know.  It seems that when you have several
screens of different resolutions up at the same time, and flip between
them, you can get strange errors, usually resulting in crashes,
sometimes with some pretty spectacular fireworks.  I think it happens
when you have interlaced and non-interlaced screens at the same time,
because sometimes the interlaced screen comes up non-interlaced, with
the bottom half of the screen disappearing into your top desk drawer.

I've seen this bug discussed here before, so I know it's not exactly
news.  What I want to know is can anyone describe a little more exactly
the conditions to avoid?  I'm afraid to run several applications that
open custom screens at once, for fear of crashing due to this bug.  Has
anybody figured out a fix or a patch?  I suppose it can't be fixed
permanantly until 1.4, right?  How about a patch like SetAlert?
Something!  Anything!

[I've just spent the last hour preparing my data with Superbase,
graphing it with MultiPlot, etc., etc.;  in walks my professor to take a
look at some of my results;  "Here you go, look at these graphs...Look
at that nice...red...blinking...box..."]

Thanks,


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Eric Kennedy
ejkst@cisunx.UUCP