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- From: m.hendry@dial.pipex.com (Mathew Hendry)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: My WB 3.0 Palette Prefs crashes :(
- Date: Sat, 3 Feb 96 08:21:57
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- Harv R Laser (Harv@cup.portal.com) wrote:
- : A1200, WB 3.0. When I run prefs:palette, the screen opens with title bar,
- : the system locks up and I get a GURU. I don't remember the last
- : time I used this pref, so I'm not sure what I might have installed
- : that screwed things up. The colorwheel never appears.
- :
- : I installed MUI 3.2 today and removed MUI 3.0 which I'd been using
- : but I don't think MUI installation would affect original
- : Workbench system software, would it?
- :
- : I had a "safecopy" of my Workbench: partition on my hard drive and
- : went thru it comparing files. I re-copied back
- : classes:gadgets/colorwheel.gadget and gradientslider.gadget,
- : and also copied back the prefs program itself from my safecopy,
- : but it's still crashing.
- :
- : Any other ideas as to what files I should look for/replace/delete
- : from a safe copy of Workbench 3.0 to get Prefs/palette working
- : again? This is most mysterious. :-/
-
- Delete the ENVARC:Sys/Palette.prefs and its analog in ENV:. A lot of the
- standard prefs programs are intolerant of corrupted prefs files. IPrefs
- sometimes had problems too. I had a very annoying crashing problem which,
- after much hair-pulling, I traced to my WBPattern.prefs file...
-
- -- Mat.
-