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- From: Steve Powell <Rock@g4wyc.demon.co.uk>
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- Subject: Re: ToolManager Problem
- Date: Sat, 20 Jan 96 00:08:11 GMT
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- In article <4doik8$eoj@netty.york.ac.uk> jlo100@york.ac.uk (JL Orgill) writes:
- > JL Orgill (jlo100@york.ac.uk) wrote:
- > : Its a little strange this one. I start it from WBStartup, and if I just
- > : have my main graphic dock (using icons) at the bottom, and all the rest
- > : text, it works fine.
- > : But in the secondry dock (text) which open sub-docks, I have one (Apps)
- > : which has cute icons too. This also loads fine.
- > : But there is another sub-dock (Prefs) which works fine in text mode. If I
- > : assign only one graphic brush, it works fine (except for lots of blanked
- > : buttons).
- > : Heres the problem. If I try to assign icons to all of them (~29), then
- > : machine crashes on bootup. It stops just after a grey rectangle has been
- > : drawn where the main dock goes. Heres the really strange bit though. If I
- > : remove TM from WBStartup, boot my machine, then start TM manually, it
- > : works fine and dandy.
- > : What the hell is going on? Is there a problem where TM hogs vital
- > : resources or something? Help please?
- >
- > : Mistified
- > : SteveB
- >
- > I had a real heavy play trying to get this licked last night. It's like
- > TM is crashing if something else wants to use the hard drive or
- > something. I have incidentally had the same type of crash when I selected
- > use from the prefs, and quit Imagine3 that was running. So far the only
- > reliable way I have of getting my system fully up and running (with lots
- > of gfx in docks) is to start it after the loadwb cmd in startup-sequence.
- > This has me seriously puzzled. Output from SnoopDos shows that it is
- > happily accessing files mixed with other programs. Here's the most stupid
- > bit though. 6 other WBSU progs + TM. I had a command to start SnoopDos at
- > the start of user-startup, and output to a log file. If the snoopdos
- > window is open, the system boot time is huge, but it boots OK. If the
- > window is closed, the system is quicker, but it hangs. It all seems to be
- > timing, but timing of what!!!!!!!!!!
- >
- > Heeeeeeeeeeeeeellllllllllllllllp!
- > SteveB
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- Try (if running from an icon in WBStartUp) changing start priority:
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- Tooltype
- STARTPRI=-120
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- This should make it the last run WBStartup prog. If that doesn't work
- drop a script with a wait command and then Toolmanager into WBStartup
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- Good Luck
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