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From: jms@tardis.Tymnet.COM (Joe Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Loosing files using WB
Summary: Happens to me on the Amiga-Plus disks
Keywords: Drawer Icon
Message-ID: <523@tardis.Tymnet.COM>
Date: 19 Aug 89 23:48:09 GMT
References: <21914@louie.udel.EDU> <201@nisca.ircc.ohio-state.edu>
Reply-To: jms@tardis.Tymnet.COM (Joe Smith)
Organization: McDonnell Douglas Field Service Co, San Jose CA
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In article <201@nisca.ircc.ohio-state.edu> rjtatz@hpuxa.ircc.ohio-state.edu (Robert J. Tatz) writes:
>I used a friend's 2000 w/hard drive.  When I clicked once on
>a drawer icon and moved it one pixel it DISAPPEARED.  It jumped
>into another directory whose icon was two icons directly above it.
>I know it sounds strange, but it was repeatable although it had to
>be done just right.  He nearly killed me when it first disappeared,
>but everything was there - I just moved the drawer back out.

You didn't say which disk or what type of icons were giving you problems,
but it was probably the "Chest of Drawers" icons created by Gary Roseman.
They are on the 2nd and 3rd disks of Antic's Amiga-Plus magazine.

All of their drawer icons touch each other when stacked vertically.  (Gary
must have worked very hard to get those icons to work - they confuse
Workbench to the point where it puts the label of the drawer INSIDE the
rectange that encloses the image.)  Anyway, if you are double clicking on
the bottom drawer and the mouse happens move even one pixel up while the
button is down, POOF!  Workbench thinks you have moved the icon a large
vertical distance, and puts it inside the drawer two rows above it.

If nothing else, you can find the missing drawer by searching in every
drawer on the disk.

I plan to NOT use those icons because of this problem.
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