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ArcWeb 1.77 -- Disappearing bookmarks contents
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Since releasing ArcWeb 1.77 yesterday (Monday 24th March) I have had
several e-mails saying that the bookmark display windows are now
empty.  It also affects the hierarchical bookmark display tool (which
is still only for display purposes) and the history list.  The bookmark
entries are still there - clicking in the window causes the page to be
fetched - but they are invisible.

People who are having this trouble are all running a utility called
"AddSprites" or a tool with a similar purpose which is preventing
ArcWeb from inserting the sprites in the !Types file into the common
Wimp sprite pool because they either clash with existing sprites or to
stop small versions of sprites from loading.  ArcWeb uses *IconSprites
to insert icons for common web filetypes.  These are standard icons
distributed by ANT Ltd.  Not unreasonably, it expects these sprites to
be present in the sprite pool when it tries to use them for displaying
the bookmarks and history lists (specifically, small_b28) (Technically,
SWI Wimp_PlotIcon gives up plotting the text if the sprite isn't there
in a text+sprite icon)

I am not sure how to recommend corrective action.  ArcWeb isn't doing
anything wrong, and since the sprites are the official icons for the file
types concerned, I have no misgivings over entering them in the common
sprite pool.  One solution is to execute the command:

"*Set AddSprites$Small On"

before running ArcWeb to allow it to insert those small sprites into the
sprite pool.  As I don't use or have AddSprites myself, I do not know what
other action to take.  It is possible that that *-command will fix the
problem completely, but it may not.


Thanks to Andrew Hetherington, Colin McQueen, David Briggs, who have all
mailed me to describe the problem and solution plus all the other people
who will no doubt e-mail me before reading this news posting.


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Stewart Brodie, Electronics & Computer Science, Southampton University.
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