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- Apple II
- Technical Notes
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- Developer Technical Support
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- Apple IIgs
- #82: Controlling the Control Manager
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- Written by: Dave Lyons May 1990
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- This Technical Note describes an anomaly in the NewControl2 call in System
- Software 5.0.2 and provides a solution.
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- When NewControl2 creates a control, it's supposed to set the QuickDraw II port
- to the control's owner port--but it doesn't. If the port is not already set
- properly, this can cause the system to trash memory at random.
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- To avoid the problem, always SetPort to the window in which you are creating
- controls before calling NewControl2.
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- Implications for NewWindow2
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- NewWindow2 can create a window and its controls in one step. In this case,
- the port is not set to the window that was just created, before NewWindow2
- calls NewControl2 internally. The result is that NewWindow2 cannot reliably
- create a window with an attached control list.
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- A solution is to do a NewWindow2 call without an attached control list,
- SetPort to the newly-created window, and then do a NewControl2 call.
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- Further Reference
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- o Apple IIgs Toolbox Reference, Volume 3
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