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Re: Font problem

Subject Re: Font problem
Newsgroups comp.sys.acorn.programmer
From Alan Adams <alan@adamshome.org.uk>
Date 2019-05-10 19:35 +0100
Message-ID <aa251ab257.Alan.Adams@ArmX6.adamshome.org.uk> (permalink)
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In message <003219b257.Alan.Adams@ArmX6.adamshome.org.uk>
          Alan Adams <alan@adamshome.org.uk> wrote:

> Hi

> I'm struggling with a mysterious problem.

> I have a BASIC program which can be launched three ways - run directly, or
> run via Wimp_StartTask from one of two different programs. When it is
> launched via one of those programs it changes the desktop font to the
> System font. This occurs if the launching program starts up using "run at
> startup" but not if it is run manually.

<snip>
> My suspicion, as always in such cases, is to suspect that something I am
> doing is overwriting memory somewhere. Can anyone come up with a reason
> for the desktop font change to be the result?

This is being tested on a Raspberry pi running RO 5.23 (13-Apr-2017).
CPU is set to ARMv7 strict mode.

-- 
Alan Adams, from Northamptonshire
alan@adamshome.org.uk
http://www.nckc.org.uk/

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Font problem Alan Adams <alan@adamshome.org.uk> - 2019-05-10 19:25 +0100
  Re: Font problem Alan Adams <alan@adamshome.org.uk> - 2019-05-10 19:35 +0100
    Re: Font problem Alan Adams <alan@adamshome.org.uk> - 2019-05-10 20:19 +0100
  Re: Font problem Matthew Phillips <spam2011m@yahoo.co.uk> - 2019-05-10 21:21 +0100
  Re: Font problem Harriet Bazley <harriet@bazleyfamily.co.uk> - 2019-05-11 01:20 +0100
  Re: Font problem Paul Sprangers <Paul@sprie.nl> - 2019-05-11 14:28 +0200
    Re: Font problem Alan Adams <alan@adamshome.org.uk> - 2019-05-12 20:44 +0100
      Re: Font problem Martin Wuerthner <spamtrap@mw-software.com> - 2019-05-13 19:43 +0200
        Re: Font problem Alan Adams <alan@adamshome.org.uk> - 2019-05-13 21:54 +0100
        Re: Font problem Alan Adams <alan@adamshome.org.uk> - 2019-05-14 11:57 +0100
      Re: Font problem jgh@mdfs.net - 2019-05-14 21:10 -0700
        Re: Font problem Alan Adams <alan@adamshome.org.uk> - 2019-05-15 10:11 +0100

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