david@sherpa.UUCP (Dave Quarles) (04/19/91)
YES !! There really is a PIG, in ResEdit that is. I saw this explanation and thought others that have seen comments about the famous PIG mode. Pig Mode, available in ResEdit 2.1 and later apparently was made to help the ResEdit team find bugs. It is invoked by holding down Shift, Option, and Command keys while sel- ecting the "about ResEdit." It is a diagnostic mode that compacts and also purges memory while ResEdit is running.
swansond@cube05.csus.edu (Dennis Swanson) (04/22/91)
In article <546@sherpa.UUCP> david@sherpa.UUCP (Dave Quarles) writes: >YES !! There really is a PIG, in ResEdit that is. > >I saw this explanation and thought others that have seen comments about >the famous PIG mode. > >Pig Mode, available in ResEdit 2.1 and later apparently was made to help >the ResEdit team find bugs. > >It is invoked by holding down Shift, Option, and Command keys while sel- >ecting the "about ResEdit." It is a diagnostic mode that compacts and >also purges memory while ResEdit is running. I'm posting this only cuz my mail to you, Dave, came back "host unknown". Sorry to bother you with my apparent stupidity, but I use ResEdit 2.1 and can't seem to make my way into "pig mode". When I hold down the option key, the "about" item disappears from the apple menu. So I pull down the menu first, then hold down those three keys, and I get the same ole box. I know there are a couple of "pig" alerts -- I should be seeing those, right? And I know there's an "alternate about" box that's also an ALRT, but I can't get that to appear either. Clues? Den /Dennis M. Swanson --> swansond@csus.edu / "He was as calm as a/ /Macintosh Lab Assistant/Computer Science Student/ Perry Como groupie."/ /University Computing and Communications Services/ -- Sledge Hammer/ /California State University, Sacramento /"Harness the Macpower!"/
swansond@cube05.csus.edu (Dennis Swanson) (04/22/91)
Yep -- it _was_ my stupidity. Charles Allen set me straight with a mail message a few minutes after my post. It was SuitCase II that was nuking the "About ResEdit" menu item. Command-option-shift works fine, and as an FYI, holding down command-option will bring up the "alternate about box". Den /Dennis M. Swanson --> swansond@csus.edu / "He was as calm as a/ /Macintosh Lab Assistant/Computer Science Student/ Perry Como groupie."/ /University Computing and Communications Services/ -- Sledge Hammer/ /California State University, Sacramento /"Harness the Macpower!"/