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- From: jacobs@cs.utah.edu (Steven R Jacobs)
- Subject: Re: Work-area bug
- Message-ID: <JACOBS.92Dec14074733@cells.cs.utah.edu>
- In-reply-to: bjorn@ludd.luth.se's message of 13 Dec 92 16:40:07 GMT
- Organization: University of Utah CS Dept
- References: <1992Dec13.164007.2849@ludd.luth.se>
- Date: 14 Dec 92 07:47:33
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- In article <1992Dec13.164007.2849@ludd.luth.se> bjorn@ludd.luth.se (Bjorn Fahller) writes:
- >
- > Defining folders as work-areas seems to be a good way of giving yourself
- > more work, or at least make you work longer with what you're doing. I've
- > defined a folder as a work area, containing shadows to 3 disk
- > directories (described in my article about WPS inefficiency). Opening
- > the work area is neat and makes you think it's a breeze. Closing it,
- > however, usually ends with one of the following scenarios (in order of
- > frequency):
- >
- > 1. The folder brings all of WPS with it, as it collapses. WPS restarts
- > again in a short time, and once again brings up the work area.
- > 2. It seems like it works, but a following shutdown of OS/2 never
- > finishes. (tried waiting no less than 6 hours once)
- > 3. WPS freezes. Can C-A-D out of it, but nothing else (that I know of)
- > 4. The system freezes with a register dump (happened once only)
-
- I've never seen this behavior, but I have found another annoying "feature"
- of work areas. I have one work area inside of another work area, and I
- generally prefer to leave both of these work areas in the same state (both
- opened or both closed). No problem, except that WPS often "forgets" the
- layout of the icons in the "nested" work area. Selecting "arrange" from
- the menu cleans things up, and if I close the nested work area before
- closing the higher level work area, then everything is fine. But, if I
- close the higher level work area and let WPS automatically close the
- nested work area, then the icon layout of the nested work area is lost.
- Strangely, this problem seems to get worse if I use the Scheme Palette
- to set up very narrow (1 or 2 pixel) borders on the windows for these
- ork areas.
- --
- Steve Jacobs ({bellcore,hplabs,uunet}!utah-cs!jacobs, jacobs@cs.utah.edu)
- "Don't worry, I just have these harmless pocket rockets...."
-