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Article #24794Re: Finder 6.0 in "Scourge of the Killer Icons"
From: Francine Ponenti
Date: Fri, 05 Feb 1988 04:05
Date: Fri, 05 Feb 1988 04:05
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in article <16005@think.UUCP>, ephraim@think.COM (ephraim vishniac) says: > > Running Finder 6.0, System 4.2 on a Mac II, I found this catastrophic > Finder bug over the weekend: > > If the icon mask (second half of the ICN# resource) for a file is > blank (all zeroes), attempting to drag the file in an icon view kills > the Finder. Sometimes it bombs, sometimes it scrambles the screen, > sometimes it just freezes solid - no mouse, no keyboard, no debugger. This appears to be a very severe result of a bug that was introduced into Finder 6.0. The Finder appears to no longer handles ICN#'s correctly. For example, click once upon an application such as Lightspeed C that has an icon that changes when you click on it. (LC's icon changes from a starfield to a box with a C inside of it) Notice that the icon does not correctly change. (into the C in this case) I believe that instead of overlaying the mask with the original icon to get the new icon, the mask is being drawn by itself. This may be a change that Apple made to make the use of the ICN# masks easier, so that instead of drawing an icon and masking changes to it, you simply draw two seperate icons. Francine
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!phri!cooper!francine From: francine@cooper.cooper.EDU (Francine Ponenti ) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Finder 6.0 in "Scourge of the Killer Icons" Message-ID: <1193@cooper.cooper.EDU> Date: 5 Feb 88 04:05:19 GMT References: <16005@think.UUCP> Organization: The Cooper Union (NY, NY) Lines: 22