howard@amdahl.amdahl.com (The Toolmaster) (07/17/87)
I got this mail reply to my StdFile problem and was asked to post it for the benefit of all so here goes: >Date: Fri, 17 Jul 87 09:56:27 EDT >From: sun!harvard.harvard.edu!singer (Andrew Singer) >To: howard@amdahl.amdahl.com >Subject: Re: StdFile Dialog Problem and other general info >Status: RO >[I tried posting this, but my news server doesn't seem to like me. Maybe you >can post it for me...] >In article <10254@amdahl.amdahl.com> howard@amdahl.UUCP (The Toolmaster) writes: >>First the problem: >> >>I am running 4.1/5.5 on an SE/hd and I am noticing a problem occasionally >>with StdFile dialogs. They seem to be missing the Volume icon and name and >>the folder popup menu above the scrolling file list. If I click in these >>areas (where they should be) it works. In the case of the popup, it draws >>the current dir and the rest of the popup with the path. If I select properly, >>its all undrawn. If I move off the popup, the system will leave the current >>dir. the way it should have drawn it in the first place. Under no circum- >>stances have I been able to get the volume icon/name to draw in the right >>corner. As I said though, clicking where it should be does raise me a >>directory. Any clues? This behaviour has definitely been exhibited in >>Excel 1.04. I think that its happened with other applications but I >>didn't pay enough attention before to say for sure. [Note: after some experiments I found it happens with other Applications too.] >Are you using Switcher? Using Switcher on an SE will definitely lead to this >kind of behavior. I traced this a while ago to a problem with GetVolInfo on >the SE ROMs. It seems GetVolInfo refuses to return the name of the volume if >the address you pass it in ioNamePtr is greater than MemTop. That's all well >and good, but under Switcher MemTop is the size of your partition, not the >address of the top of memory... > Jon Hueras > THINK Technologies, Inc. Thanks Jon, that's the problem alright. So much for Switcher 5.1... (Or as the Blues Brothers would say, "Waddya want for nothing..." :-) -- "Plan for the future because that's where you Howard C. Simonson are going to spend the rest of your life." {hplabs,ihnp4,nsc}!amdahl!howard - Mark Twain - [ The disclaimer for this message may be found in my next article ]