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StarInfo/Boura/Manuals/Bugs
This website contains an archive of files for the Acorn Electron, BBC Micro, Acorn Archimedes, Commodore 16 and Commodore 64 computers, which Dominic Ford has rescued from his private collection of floppy disks and cassettes.
Some of these files were originally commercial releases in the 1980s and 1990s, but they are now widely available online. I assume that copyright over them is no longer being asserted. If you own the copyright and would like files to be removed, please contact me.
| Tape/disk: | Home » Archimedes archive » Acorn User » AU 1996-08.adf » Regulars |
| Filename: | StarInfo/Boura/Manuals/Bugs |
| Read OK: | ✔ |
| File size: | 02F7 bytes |
| Load address: | 0000 |
| Exec address: | 0000 |
File contents
Bugs ==== Not so much a bug, rather a problem. (RiscOS and Director were not designed for what I am trying to do!) I am fairly sure that the problem is not in my code, and there is a reasonably easy work round. FindDrives does this in order to start CD Player and open the control panel. This line is intended to start an application and then send it a click on the iconbar. Command AppEsure ..... |MClick ...... Unfortunately, only the first one is executed. I have played around with the double double quotes etc but I can't persuade it to work! The work round is to use the command to execute an obey file containing the two commands. ie Command Director:Menus.System.ObeyFile The ObeyFile contains the two commands; AppEnsure ...... Click .....
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