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MacII, MicroSoft BASIC, MacroMaker, and me

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From: David Elliott
Date: Wed, 01 Mar 1989 15:19
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I recently received an application which was built with compiled
MicroSoft BASIC.  It has a tendency to crash my MacII running 6.0.2.  I
do not run MultiFinder.

With no INITs installed (easy, thanks to John Rotenstein's initcdev),
the program works fine.

With MacroMaker installed (whether I have other INITs or not), if I
drag across the menu bar quickly, the program crashes and results in a
system crash.  If I drag slowly so that there is enough time for
MacroMaker's menu to be displayed, or if I move the mouse to the menu
icon and select it, the program works fine.

With QuicKeys or SuitcaseII installed (regardless of other INITs), if I
select the DA (apple) menu, the program crashes.

With both QuicKeys and SuitcaseII installed, if I select the DA (apple)
menu, the program crashes and results in a system crash.  One such
crash was so violent that I had to power down for my hard disk to be
recognized.

I tried the application with MacroMaker installed on an SE, and the
program worked just fine.

Are there known problems with MicroSoft BASIC in this area?  One
interesting thing I noted was that the MacroMaker menu icon, which
usually is placed to the right of all of the other menu entries, gets
placed to the right of the File item, but to the left of all of the
menu items defined in the BASIC program (it came with source).

Boy, I sure hope that the SE/30 and MacIIcx are successful so I
can get more working software (half :-).

-- 
David Elliott		...!pyramid!boulder!stan!dce
"Splish splash, I was rakin' in the cash"  -- Eno
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Subject: MacII, MicroSoft BASIC, MacroMaker, and me
Keywords: QuicKeys and Suitcase, II
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Date: 1 Mar 89 15:19:32 GMT
Reply-To: dce@stan.UUCP (David Elliott)
Organization: Solbourne Computer Inc., Longmont, Colorado
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