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Colouring lessons page 7


PhAtfiSh sent me the following screenshot: the usual, except why does this keep happening? I don’t like the choice(s) on offer at this point either:

The Help Viewer application shipped with Mac OS 9 demonstrates yet another bug in QuickTime. If a (global?) floating window covers over the program’s window, the embedded QuickTime movie redraws incorrectly when you scroll the window:

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Mac OS X Tiger (if not all versions) displays some curious redraw problems after a window has been minimised and then restored:

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I asked Tiger to quit multiple programs at once, leaving iCab running. Somewhere along the line, someone forgot to erase the menu bar prior to redraw:

I have seen screenshots of this from other Macs, so it’s not just me! Time to play Guess the Menus:

The following screenshot from Mr Anonymous shows a window that has mysteriously been set to the wrong window class, or the operating system has forgotten what a regular window is supposed to look like:

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To be fair, bugs in REALbasic—as with Excel—probably don’t count, since it’s made of bugs by Bug workers in Bug City, but what’s with this?

Windows has this curious feature where selected menu items fade out, which like any extraneous feature in any system, is broken: