K538915@CZHRZU1A.BITNET.UUCP (05/05/87)
While working on my latest program, I had a tiny bit of trouble with the
call windset(0,WFNEWDESK,tree,0,0) call described in Tim Oren's PRO-GEM
and Abacus ST-Internals book. Now and then a program would just suddenly
bomb out (NOT the program I was working on), then I relised what was
even after a appl_exit and rsrc_free, AES was still trying to the draw
the desktop with the (non-existant) object tree. This will only be noticeable
if you start the program from a shell and not from the desktop, as the
desktop (as the name says:-)) uses it own desktop..... The solution is to
do a
windset(0,WFNEWDESK,0,0,0,0) (I didn't find this documented anywhere!)
call before stoping the program, this will restore the default grey desktop.
A wide spread program that has this bug is K-Resource v1.0, so DON'T use
it from a shell!
Simon Poole
K538915@CZHRZU1A.BITNET