home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Path: sparky!uunet!haven.umd.edu!darwin.sura.net!wupost!waikato.ac.nz!canterbury.ac.nz!equinox.gen.nz!equinox!bignode!pete
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: HiSoft BASIC & WB2.04
- Message-ID: <pete.03kz@bignode.equinox.gen.nz>
- From: pete@bignode.equinox.gen.nz (Pete Moore)
- Date: 21 Dec 92 21:31:13 +1200
- Reply-To: pete@bignode.equinox.gen.nz
- Organization: Equinox Networks
- X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]
- Lines: 33
-
- I have quite a lot of stuff which I've written in HiSoft BASIC, and I have
- had some problems since installing WB2.04
-
- Occasionally I get recoverable alerts either on starting or on quitting an
- executable created by HSB. Programs started via something else, such as
- ToolManager or DiskMaster, seem to be especially prone to this problem, but
- I've also had it occur with programs launched from workbench & from CLI.
- The `recoverable alerts' are often not recoverable, and are followed by a
- lockup when I click the mouse. Once or twice I've had a lockup without an
- alert.
-
- Less serious, but quite annoying, is that a running HiSoft program will
- often change any existing non-workbench screen to workbench colours. Having
- the HSB program call the dos library is almost guaranteed to cause this, but
- any HSB program seems to do it occasionally. Moving the affected screen to
- the back and then to the front again always restores its correct colours.
-
- Does anyone have any idea what HiSoft is doing wrong, and can it be fixed?
-
- I'm currently almost at the point of abondoning HiSoft in favour of Blitz,
- but if possible I'd like a fix for the stuff I've already written.
-
- I'm running an A500+ with 5.5Meg (1.5 chip, 2 32-bit, 2 16-bit) and a
- 25MHz VXL 68EC030 - I don't think any of this matters, because I've seen
- HSB cause similar problems on other WB2.04 machines.
-
- advTHANKSance.
- --
- +------------------- pete@bignode.equinox.gen.nz -------------------+
- | The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things |
- | that lifts human life above the level of farce, and gives it some |
- | of the grace of tragedy - Steven Weinberg |
- +---------------------------------------------------------------------+
-