From: S_TITZ@iravcl.ira.uka.de (Olaf Titz)
Newsgroups: alt.irc,comp.sys.mac.comm,de.talk.chat
Subject: Re: Macintosh IRC Client available
Followup-To: alt.irc
Date: 24 Jul 1992 09:30:37 GMT
Organization: Fachschaft Informatik, Uni Karlsruhe
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Summary: First bug reports
Keywords: ircle bug
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Here come the first known bugs...

In <1992Jul23.162412.16081@seas.smu.edu> mitchell@seas.smu.edu writes:

>  I have downloaded this program, and though it looks good in theory, I
>  have noticed a HUGE bug... text does not appear in the channel window
>  if the channel window is selected (which it must be in order to send
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                         (see below)
>  messages to it). If I change windows, it appears just as it should.
>  But when I switch back to the channel window, the same problem crops
>  up. Any clue as to why this is happening? And has anyone run into this
>  problem as well?

You are by far not the only one reporting this...
Well *I* have actually encountered this problem during development and
tried out several ways of fixing it. It seems to be a bug in the
TextEdit toolbox, i.e. in the Mac System Software which seemingly
 - redraws text inserted into an *INactive* window only in the portion
   of the window which is the biggest rectangle inside the visible
   region (i.e. not covered by other windows)
and can be fixed with InvalRect'ing the whole window after an insert
which causes an annoying flickering and therefore has been taken out.
(Puh.) Switching windows causes an update of the windows just for this
reason, as it would be unnecessary otherwise.

According to the above description, this error should
- appear only in windows being NOT active and
- be possible to avoid by placing all windows non-overlapping.
If it indeed does occur in an active window, there is still another
bug which I should track down.

>  
>  Technical info: I used a Mac IIsi running System 7. I tested it out
>  on both ns.mitek.com and ccwf.cc.utexas.edu, with the same results.
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are these IRC servers or FTP locations?
For servers, this really should make no difference as the window
problem is 100% a client programming issue.
For FTPs, I can guarantee that all have an identical version of the
program.

>  As far as I can tell, there is no conflict between ircle and any other
>  program, such as virus checks and screen servers.
Which never should occur as it is programmed dogmatically adhering to
Inside Macintosh. (And I have such programs running, too.)

>  
>  -- 
>  Utopium Enterprizes - mitchell@seas.smu.edu

>  "Do not mistake my sympathy for understanding; do not accept my understanding
>   as sympathy." -- St. Thomas Laine the Abbreviated
I never had problems distinguishing these two things :-)

Two other bugs have been reported (and are fixed). 
- 'Cannot join channel' message appears twice
- 'xxx has a connection to the twilight zone' message appears in the
wrong window. 

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MfG,
        Olaf
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