Re: Pointless 2.01

[mjk31124@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (St. Michael )]

florpch@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (Lawrence S Lee) writes:

>I recently bought the latest version of Pointless, and I've come across a
>problem.  Whenever I drag the mouse across the menu bar, and pass all the
>menu titles that involve fonts (font, size, style), those menus become
>corrupted.  Sometimes they'll revert back to normal, but other times they
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>Anyways, after trying all sorts of solutions (ie. disabling all inits except
>the control panel and pointless; REINSTALLING SYSTEM SOFTWARE ;) ; and
>reinstalling pointless, I think I've nailed the problem.
>TOO MANY FONTS!
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>fonts from pointless, I added one font, just one, and rebooted. Whoa. NO
>menu problems. Reinstall all 174, and the menus mess up.  Obviously there's
>some correlation here.

This might be related it might be not.  Last year I had a similar problem
with the font menus.  I don't have Pointless but the symtoms are the same 
as you described.  After weeks of frustration I managed to narrow it down
to a particular font (Florence 12, 24).  When I examined the font info I
realized it had garbled text for the font ID.  So I chose an arbitrarily
high number and vala! no more crashes!  BTW: I had 248 fonts to narrow
down... ACK!  I know there is a program out now that checks for proper
font IDs and font ID conflicts.  If I only had that last year... sigh.
I don't remeber the name of the program off hand but perhaps if some here
knows...

Hope this helps...

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