| From: | Kevin Twyman |
| Date: | 5 May 2001 at 22:17:15 |
| Subject: | Re: 24bit button banks |
Hello Steven,
On 04-May-01, you wrote:
>> > That bug in Octopus only rears its head if you decide to change
>>
>> I guess I've been lucky so far! Does it overwrite the actual
>> application ie. YAM, Voyager etc. or the settings in Octapus?
> It overwrites the program you selected in the prefs....so for
> example if you just added YAM to the button bank, it'll overwrite
> yam with a file of 0 bytes. If you set yams protection bits to no
Damn! I have been lucky, then! I've changed the icons, backgrounds etc
several times!
> delete, then add it, you'll be safe. It is annoying and caught me
> out a few times when fiddling with its prefs, since merely adding or
> removing buttons can cause it to overwrite the file you are
> selecting.
So I'm OK if I don't fiddle with the icons? Trouble is, I'm a bugger
for changing those sort of things :)
> I like many other people I'm sure did actually submit a keystone bug
> report on this on the Vapor page, but nothing ever came of it -
> obviously more concerns were with fixing V2/V3 bugs.
That's a pretty nasty bug, though, especially if, like me, you weren't
aware of it. Thanks for the info.
Regards,
Kevin - Est. 1949 http://www.theboyz.freeserve.co.uk
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