Re: [StrongED] StrongMem problems

[Fred Graute <fjgraute@xxxxxxxxx>]

In message <1221a7b951.old_coaster@old_coaster.yahoo.co.uk>
          Tony Moore <old_coaster@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 25 Mar 2011, Richard Ashbery <riscos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Its only taken me years to discover the usefulness of StrongMem
> > (V1.26) but I have some issues......
> >
> > Help, V3.16 (19-Jan-10) sometimes crashes StrongMem with an Abort on
> > data transfer at &0000C8C0 when loaded from Applications menu.
>
> I can't reproduce that here, with Help 3.28 (29 Mar 2009)

That's because you've got the latest StrongMen which has this fixed but
hasn't been released yet. :-)

> > Clicking Directories > System does nothing even though <System$Dir> is
> > correctly assigned in the StrongMenu.
>
> Recently I discussed a similar problem with Fred. He suggested changing
> that section of the StrongMenu file to read:
>
> Directories
>   !Scrap<tab>*Filer_OpenDir <Wimp$ScrapDir>
>   !System<tab>*Filer_OpenDir <System$Dir>
>   Choices<tab>*Filer_OpenDir <Choices$Dir>

With regard to the above it's important to remember that if no command
is specified then StrongMen will issue a Filer_Run command on a path.

As <System$Dir> points to !System, an application, it is run the effect
of which depends on the version of !System. On RO 5.16 it does nothing,
on RO 6.20 it aborts as !System attempts to softload SharedCLib whilst
it's in use.

The suggested changes make sure that a Filer_OpenDir is issued so that
application directories are opened and not run.

Cheers,

Fred.

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