lee@sed170.HAC.COM (John Lee ) (11/09/88)
Browsing through my newly acquired 1.3 Extras disk (thank you Commodore, CATS, developers and everyone else who helped bring 1.3 to fruition), I noticed that with showmem (or whatever the program in Extras to display the chip mem freelist is called) running, palette promptly exits when started. No error message, no GURU, no apparent loss of memory (I think), no nothing. Curious. Yet when I quit showmem, palette comes up fine. I can then start up showmem and both run happily. I can repeat this multiple times without problem. Curiouser, and curiouser. I realize this is not a serious bug, but it might bring something to light. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ John Lee Preferred: jhlee@hac2arpa.hac.com Acceptable: johnhlee@cory.Berkeley.EDU Bad: jpournelle@chaos.IBM.com The opinions expressed above are those of the user and do not necessarily reflect those of this machine.
cmcmanis%pepper@Sun.COM (Chuck McManis) (11/12/88)
In article <254@sed170.HAC.COM> lee@sed170.UUCP (John Lee (ird)) writes: >Browsing through my newly acquired 1.3 Extras disk (thank you Commodore, CATS, >developers and everyone else who helped bring 1.3 to fruition), I noticed >that with showmem (or whatever the program in Extras to display the chip mem >freelist is called) running, palette promptly exits when started. No error >message, no GURU, no apparent loss of memory (I think), no nothing. It isn't a bug it's a feature :-). Palette is a special program, in that it opens itself on whichever screen is frontmost on the display. When showmem is running it's screen is frontmost, palette tries to open on it, finds out it is to small and gives up. When showmem isn't running the frontmost screen is the workbench whereupon it starts up as you would expect. WHAT THIS MEANS: Is that you can use Palette as a standard color requester in *any* program. (that has a large enough screen :-)). I have a program called "FunKeys" which is part of the TxEd package from Microsmiths, and it lets me specify a couple of "hotkey" combinations. One of them is setup to run pallete. Now when I am in VLT, or DPaint, or MaxiPlan I press the hotkey and poof color requester appears. I also use this technique in my Life program when you select the menu item "Change Colors" it execs a copy of palette. Once the colors are set I save them from the viewport. Simple no? It also lets you "steal" colors. Say you run Aegis Draw+ and decide you really like the interlace colors. Well now all you do is pull down the draw screen, start palette (which will appear on that screen) and look at the colors and read off the hex values. All in all it is *quite* useful. --Chuck McManis uucp: {anywhere}!sun!cmcmanis BIX: cmcmanis ARPAnet: cmcmanis@sun.com These opinions are my own and no one elses, but you knew that didn't you.
bryan@intvax.UUCP (Jon R Bryan) (11/12/88)
In article <254@sed170.HAC.COM>, lee@sed170.HAC.COM (John Lee ) writes: > > Browsing through my newly acquired 1.3 Extras disk (thank you Commodore, CATS, > developers and everyone else who helped bring 1.3 to fruition), I noticed > that with showmem (or whatever the program in Extras to display the chip mem > freelist is called) running, palette promptly exits when started. No error I managed to GURU 00000003.xetc. my brand-new 1.3 within the first 30 minutes by calling up Preferences, changing the printer parameters, selecting "Save" and then clicking on the icon to dump the screen while there was still disk activity going on. Guess I'm just too fast for my own good. :>