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- SpecialFX and Organizer
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-
- One known problem can exist with the use of SpecialFX, despite
- its provision of on/off switches for all its effects. It has
- been found that, on some systems and under certain conditions,
- if SpecialFX and Organizer are both loaded during the boot
- sequence, there can be 'leakage' of the text colour from
- within Organizer's icon to the rest of the desktop. The exact
- causes of this problem have not yet been traced, and it only
- appears to happen in 256-colour screen modes.
-
- Users of RISC OS 4.2+ are unlikely to experience this problem.
-
- If you do experience the problem, then fortunately there is an
- easy work-around. Proceed as follows:
-
- 1. Open the following directory inside your !Boot application:
- !Boot.Choices.Boot.Tasks
-
- 2. Move (Shift-drag) your copy of !Organizer so that it
- resides in this directory instead of its previous location.
-
- 3. Remove the line that loads Organizer from your desktop
- boot file (because Organizer is now in the Tasks directory,
- the command to load it is no longer necessary).
-
- On a RISC OS 4.0 machine, this means running Configure,
- opening the Boot>Run plug-in, and deleting the line for
- Organizer in the resulting window.
-
- On a RISC OS 3.5 to RISC OS 3.7 machine, this means loading
- the !Boot.Choices.Boot.Desktop file into a text editor and
- deleting any line(s) referring to !Organizer.
-
- The above steps ensure that Organizer will be loaded before
- SpecialFX, which cures the problem.
-