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Excel 4.0 - BH Menu = Nasty bus error

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From: Igor Livshits
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 01:04
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Howdy,

My apologies if this bug was reported before...

Apparently, Excel 4.0 does not like it when the Balloon Help menu has
been hidden.  I have repeatedly hit a bus error while working with charts
in Excel.  The other features seem to work fine, but while in a charting
window, numerous actions trigger a crash (especially, while dialogs and
windows are activating or deactivating).

These errors appear to be independent of which control panel or extension
hid the BH menu.  I have repeated the crash with SpeedyFinder7 about 57
times this afternoon.  When I originally got the upgrade, I experienced
similar crashes.  They mysteriously went away after I stopped using an
extension (No Help Menu, I think -- the icon was a cracked help balloon)
and have surfaced again today as I was working with Excel.

Running SpeedyFinder7 with BH menu showing has not had any detrimental
effects on Excel, yet.  These crashes have been confirmed on an fx and a
ci.  Both running 7.0.1 with tuner 1.1.1.  Addressing mode does not seem
to matter.

Question is, why the &*&*(^&*^* does Excel rely on the BH menu being
visible?


Cheers, Igor
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