Other GUI oddities
A selection of weird graphical interface anomalies. I’d write something witty here if I coud think of it =)
Firefox, as well as being renowned for being a memory hog, also loves eating CPU cycles unnecessarily. Here, I had suspended it using Process Explorer and later resumed it. It is too busy recovering to draw in its window (got to make up for all that lost CPU time!) but, why is the window now marked as if it were minimised?
This is an old problem that used to plague me a lot: the Apple menu recursing indefinitely. Well, until it got bored:
In FlashFXP, if you switch off the queue pane, the status display runs and hides:
I forget what happened here; it was something to do with a dialog box from Psion MacConnect showing up while I was dragging something in the Finder:
Look carefully at the following Netscape “crash” experienced by a former colleague, John Corbett.
How comes parts of Netscape are drawn on top of the crash dialogs? I was there at the time but I don’t know what was going on.
Continuing to gawk at Netscape nonsense, their el cheapo, el nastio AIM client has some strange toolbar buttons that seem to have been put there just as yuppie playtoys:
Click the toolbar collapse box next to the main toolbar and it acts weird:
And yes, it seems completely unable to memorise my chosen text colour.
As for the next screenshot, oh come on, make up your mind Athena! Is your scroll bar up, or down?
The next picture is a full-screen screenshot. No, really.
It was a screenshot of a C runtime exception dialog, I think, in Icon Machine but that is what came out when I opened the screenshot file afterwards. I don’t know where it went wrong.
The next picture is me baiting my lili_Pad: opening more and more windows until it crashed. The odd thing is that when it did die, the screen was not redrawn in as its windows were closed by the kernel, littering up the screen.
