Re: [StrongED] StrongMem problems

[Richard Ashbery <riscos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

In article <098ab6b951.fjgraute@xxxxxxxxx>, Fred Graute
<fjgraute@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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.

I wrongly assumed Filer_OpenDir.

> 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.

Thanks for clarifying.

-- 
Regards

Richard
Wakefield RISC OS Show - Sat 16th April 2011
http://www.wakefieldshow.org.uk

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