Path: news.uiowa.edu!chi-news.cic.net!uwm.edu!fnnews.fnal.gov!nntp-server.caltech.edu!nathan From: nathan@cco.caltech.edu (Nathan Mates) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: Status of System 6.02 upgrade? Date: 22 Feb 1996 03:55:26 GMT Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena Lines: 36 Message-ID: <4ggpfe$3up@gap.cco.caltech.edu> References: <4fj5ac$csf@urvile.msus.edu> <4fs69u$onb@pith.uoregon.edu> <4g2s5t$qoa@gap.cco.caltech.edu> <4gejap$2m3@tuba.cit.cornell.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: accord.cco.caltech.edu In article <4gejap$2m3@tuba.cit.cornell.edu>, Jay Krell wrote: >nathan@cco.caltech.edu (Nathan Mates) writes: > >>In article <4fs69u$onb@pith.uoregon.edu>, >>Neil Parker wrote: >>>Boot System 6.0.1, and double-click on the Teach icon. Type a few >>>characters in the document window that appears. Go to the Font menu and >>>pull down "Choose Font...". Click on the "Plain" checkbox. Then press >>>control-reset, because you GS has just completely frozen up. >> Hmmm. The Choose Font call in 6.0.1 is broken unless you've got >>Pointless 2.0.2 (maybe 2.0.1) by Westcode or the 'FixFontMgr601' (by >>myself) installed. The bug I isolated and killed in the FixFontMgr601 >I don't have Pointless and I've seen this bug w/ and w/o FixFongMgr. I'm in the middle of tracking this bug down. Looks like some weirdball interaction between the System 6.0.1 TextEdit and FontManager toolsets, anyways. (Basically, TextEdit is calling an _InstallWithStats within the DrawControls within the ContentDraw update of the background window on the second _DoModalDialog by _ChooseFont. That InstallWithStats blasts word at offset +$C4 within the FontMgr's page to $FFFF, which is where it stores the upper word of the control handle for the Plain checkbox. Click on Plain or reference it in some way, and the system will start following garbage pointers out to nowhere and have a spaz) As soon as I nail it down, a fix should be available. Nathan Mates -- <*> Nathan Mates http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~nathan/ <*> # And he said to them, "To you has been given the secret of the # Kingdom of God, but for those outside, everything comes in # parables" Mark 4:11, NRSV