CompuServe Thread

I have a few more problems I've found in all versions of the Amiga system software. Has anyone else seen these? * INTUITICKS can stack up at the IDCMP. Under certain situations I can get many (10+) INTUITICKS messages pending at my IDCMP. This causes me problems because I set the IDCMP when the mouse moves outside my window with the left button down, and I am waiting for the mouse button to be released. The button can be released, but because of the extra INTUITICKS messages, the mouse button state change doesn't reach me until I have processed all these other stacked up messages. I have reported this to Jim MacKraz at CA and have supplied him with demo code. So far no reply. * String proportional gadgets do not use the default font of the window. I open the topaz80 font and use it throughout my window successfully. My screen is the workbench screen. If I change the preferences to 60 columns then use my program, the String gadgets are all rendered in 60 (not 80) columns. Must I assign the screen a font as well? This behaviour goes against what the Intuition manual (page 5-17) says. * I'm having problems with the mouse sprite form linking to the data of previously displayed forms using the SetPointer() function. All my data has the required 4 byte null padding before and after the form data (as alluded to in the RKM). Even if a ClearPointer() is done between the SetPointer() calls, I still have the problem. Possible clues: – this only happens to some of my sprite forms – seems to be worst in the upper left corner of my window (regardless of where it is on the display) – happens mostly when the shift key is pressed. (All of the clues may be red herrings! Other important point is that I am using a Gimme00 window). If you want a font other than the one selected by Preferences, in IntuiText structs, you have to supply a TextAttr field in the structure rather than leaving it NULL. I don't comprende the problem with SetPointer – could you rephrase it? * My version of the overlay loader using the IBM cross development system seems to be busted. I removed the overlays from all the startup modules and only left them in for Requesters that can be invoked from the menu. As soon as I start my program (from the CLI), I get a system Requester telling me that some catastrophic error has occured and the machine is going to lay down for a while! I think the error is in the mystery module OVS-020.