lemke@radius.com (Steve Lemke) (11/09/90)
If anyone knows how to contact John Rotenstein electronically, please let me know. I have INIT/CDEV 3.0, and all he lists is his postal address in Double Bay, Australia. In case this message might make it to him, I'll describe my issue below: We have discovered a bug in INIT/CDEV with a two-monitor Mac system, where the two displays are different sizes. If the boot screen is different from the main screen (basically in the control panel the menubar is on one screen, say the larger one, and the happy mac (hold down the option key) is on the other (smaller) screen, then when you boot up the system, if you hold the spacebar down, a menubar the size of the smaller screen will be drawn across the top of the larger screen. This is purely a cosmetic bug, since any other init that redraws the screen will draw the proper menubar, and/or the Finder will fix it when it starts up. The technical explanation is this: INIT/CDEV calls InitWindows but NOT InitGraf. INIT/CDEV should either (A) call InitGraf before InitWindows, or when building it's own A5 world, it should be sure to use the MainDevice and NOT the BootScreen. This bug was discovered on a Mac IIci with 8mb of RAM running 6.0.7. However, it will probably occur on just about any other multi-display Mac II, and I would imagine it would still happen with 6.0.5. If anyone can forward this to John and/or let me know how to contact him electronically, I would really appreciate it. Thanks! Steve Lemke Radius Engineering -- ----- Steve Lemke, Engineering Quality Assurance, Radius Inc., San Jose ----- ----- Reply to: lemke@radius.com (Note: NEW domain-style address!!) -----