dce@stan.UUCP (David Elliott) (03/01/89)
I recently received an application which was built with compiled MicroSoft BASIC. It has a tendency to crash my MacII running 6.0.2. I do not run MultiFinder. With no INITs installed (easy, thanks to John Rotenstein's initcdev), the program works fine. With MacroMaker installed (whether I have other INITs or not), if I drag across the menu bar quickly, the program crashes and results in a system crash. If I drag slowly so that there is enough time for MacroMaker's menu to be displayed, or if I move the mouse to the menu icon and select it, the program works fine. With QuicKeys or SuitcaseII installed (regardless of other INITs), if I select the DA (apple) menu, the program crashes. With both QuicKeys and SuitcaseII installed, if I select the DA (apple) menu, the program crashes and results in a system crash. One such crash was so violent that I had to power down for my hard disk to be recognized. I tried the application with MacroMaker installed on an SE, and the program worked just fine. Are there known problems with MicroSoft BASIC in this area? One interesting thing I noted was that the MacroMaker menu icon, which usually is placed to the right of all of the other menu entries, gets placed to the right of the File item, but to the left of all of the menu items defined in the BASIC program (it came with source). Boy, I sure hope that the SE/30 and MacIIcx are successful so I can get more working software (half :-). -- David Elliott ...!pyramid!boulder!stan!dce "Splish splash, I was rakin' in the cash" -- Eno