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- From: "Marcel Offermans" <marcel@wbmt41.wbmt.tudelft.nl>
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- Subject: Re: New MagicMenu...?
- Date: Wed, 10 Jan 1996 01:09:43 +0100
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- Hello Benjamin,
-
- >> Are many other people having problems with MagicMenu? If so, I'll dig up
- >> the sources and see if I can solve some of them. No promises though.
-
- > That would be *most* appreciated. Maybe even the fixes that you already
- > made would fix our problems. The most annoying problem is occasional
- > lock-up for a time and then there also the menu text mis-alignment that
- > occurs in programs like Term.
-
- The occasional lockups can't really be solved (at least not without
- rewriting the whole program). The best practical solution is to choose a
- short timeout value for the menu's (something like 2 or 3 seconds).
-
- I'm afraid that the alignment problem with Term hasn't been solved either.
- I haven't really looked into it because it doesn't annoy me. I don't know
- if that's because of the font I use (XHelvetica/13) but the misalignment
- isn't that bad.
-
- Things I fixed are incompatibilities with programs that change their menu
- strips in a way that works with the normal OS routines (although it might
- not be allowed, but that's not the issue here) but fails with MagicMenu.
- This fix is done at the cost of a slightly worse performance of MM (which I
- don't really notice on a 25 MHz 030, but might be a problem on slower
- systems).
-
- Another thing I changed is the possibility to not use MagicMenu for certain
- tasks (or on certain screens at the moment actually). There are certain
- programs that don't behave well with MagicMenu (an example is Final Writer
- release 4; the problems with this program get worse with each release in my
- experience).
-
- The problem is that these changes have been done directly on the source
- level without adding them as options in the configuration. This makes them
- difficult to configure for others (understatement :-). I'd have to add them
- first, before I can release anything.
-
- Greetings, Marcel
-
-