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Re: It's not a problem

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From: Alan W. Frame
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 1998 00:00
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Paul Durrant <pdurrant@durrant.demon.co.uk> wrote:

> Lawrence <flowerpots@bigfoot.com> wrote: 
> >It's not a problem but...
> >when I boot up in the morning, (or at any other time), as my extensions
> >load they stack up along the bottom row; (OK so far), then they start
> >stacking on the second row,  when they get to my Global Village
> >extensions (X2) they pause, then the next extensions appear over the top
> >of them blotting them out.
> 
> It's purely cosmetic. The icon display code isn't part of the system
> software, each extension includes it's own copy. Some include older
> versions which can't cope with things like two rows of icons or misbehave
> in other peculiar ways.

AIUI a lot of extensions used something like: "Paul Mercer's ShowInit"
PD code rather than the writer's own?

ISTR that wraps the icons properly.

rgds, Alan
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Subject: Re: It's not a problem
Date: 1998/01/13
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