SAMcinty@exua.exeter.ac.uk (Scott McIntyre) (02/28/91)
I recently received NeoDesk 3.01 for my STE and have noticed an odd behaviour, I don't know if this is planned, I can't find any explanations in the docs....any help appreciated: NeoDesk in A: and some other disk in B:, if I play around with something in B:, then quit to the desktop, and close all the windows for B: then eject the disk and put in another one, then double click on B:, it seems to read from the disk (light goes on) but displays the OLD B:'s directory, or sometimes it just shows up a bunch of files with garbage characters for filenames. Anyone have any idea why this happens? I can correct it by typing escape once I have the B: root window open, then it behaves as normal... Running on a 4meg 520ste, if that matters. Scott
felner@iiic.ethz.ch (Tomas Felner) (03/02/91)
Another question about NeoDesk 3. The manual says, I think, that arbitrarily many icons can be added to the icon library used by Neodesk. However, I experienced a limit of 100 icons maximun. Anyone else noticed this? Is this a memory problem? Or is just the manual incorrect? Tomas Felner, felner@iiic.ethz.ch
mathew@mwowm.mantis.co.uk (mathew) (03/03/91)
In <1184@exua.exeter.ac.uk>, Scott McIntyre writes: > NeoDesk in A: and some other disk in B:, if I play around with something > in B:, then quit to the desktop, and close all the windows for B: then > eject the disk and put in another one, then double click on B:, it seems > to read from the disk (light goes on) but displays the OLD B:'s directory, > or sometimes it just shows up a bunch of files with garbage characters > for filenames. What did you use to format the disks? If you use some super deluxe whizzo formatter, it's possible that the formatter doesn't put a proper volume serial number on the disk, and that the machine therefore didn't notice the disk had been changed. mathew
grahamt@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Graham S Thomas) (03/05/91)
From article <26464@neptune.inf.ethz.ch>, by felner@iiic.ethz.ch (Tomas Felner): > Another question about NeoDesk 3. The manual says, I think, that arbitrarily > many icons can be added to the icon library used by Neodesk. However, I > experienced a limit of 100 icons maximun. Anyone else noticed this? > Is this a memory problem? Or is just the manual incorrect? > > Tomas Felner, felner@iiic.ethz.ch This is just from memory, but I think each icon takes up about 300 bytes of RAM. I can't remember reading anything about a limit, other than of memory, although there *is* a limit on the number of icons which can be placed on the desktop. I don't remember what that is, sorry, but it's been increased for version 3. Graham -- Graham Thomas, SPRU, Mantell Building, U of Sussex, Brighton, BN1 9RF, UK INTERNET: grahamt@syma.sussex.ac.uk JANET: grahamt@uk.ac.sussex.syma BITNET: grahamt%sussex.syma@UKACRL UUCP: grahamt%sussex.syma@ukc.uucp Phone: +44 273 678165 Fax: +44 273 685865