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- From: mks@cbmvax.commodore.com (Michael Sinz)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: WorkBench 2.04 - bug, or feature?
- Keywords: AmigaDOS 2.04
- Message-ID: <33660@cbmvax.commodore.com>
- Date: 24 Jul 92 18:33:35 GMT
- References: <1992Jul21.081047.677@leela.cs.orst.edu>
- Reply-To: mks@cbmvax.commodore.com (Michael Sinz)
- Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
- Lines: 31
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- ridgwad@jacobs.CS.ORST.EDU (Dean Ridgway) writes:
- >While working on my latest computer club disk (now in a new Workbench 2.04
- >format) I noticed that when you resize or reposition a drawer's window and
- >try to save that information back into the .INFO file that only the resizing
- >information is saved. The system still opens the window where ever it feels
- >like it (even on cold boot). If I want to fix the position that the window
- >opens at, I have to drop back to 1.3.2, its...IRRITATING!
- >
- >Does anyone know if this is a bug, or if the INFORMATION pull down menu item
- >was deliberately rewritten not to save positional information. I have looked
- >through the _Using_the_System_Software_ book under the INFORMATION pull down
- >menu and it does not say you have to do anything different to save the
- >position of a window. If this is mentioned anywhere in the System Software
- >book please give me a page number, or other reference.
-
- Well, two things:
-
- 1) Information is *not* the way to snapshot icons. It may have some
- side-effects that, in some cases will snapshot the icon, but in
- general it is just to edit things such as tooltypes, etc.
-
- 2) The SNAPSHOT menu item works just fine. I use it all of the time.
- (See the menu item just under INFORMATION...)
-
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