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The 460 User Manual says to always turn the machine off for a few seconds.

I've found that if I do that religiously, I never have a problem with the bootmouse driver getting in the way.

@Deniil:

Look up the docs for IGraphics->SetRPAttrs in graphics.doc. You will probably be interested in the tags RPTAG_APen and RPTAG_BPen. I can give you a code snippet if you like.

Good to see that the clones have partly caught up.

The printer support in OS4 has always been sadly lacking (we can't use anything from OS 3.9 and Turboprint barely runs because of its old bugs). Adding USB drivers in the chain only exposes more problems. Someone will address the printing architecture one day, but there is a limit to the work that w...

...when a task crashes the crash handler should verify if the crashed task holds any locks...

And therein lies the problem. There is no way of obtaining that information with the current architecture. We're working towards it slowly but it will take time.

I think all system components that have been written since 64-bit file sizes were available, now use the 64-bit file size fields. Some of the older components have been upgraded to 64-bit. There are some system components that have not been upgraded and if you find one, please highlight it so that w...

I guess you'd have to program the support so that only one window could be set to "ON" at a time. When you select one window's "StayOnTop" button, the code would have to turn off the switch on every other window.

Click anywhere on the command line and the cursor moves there. Any existing highlighted (selected) area anywhere on the screen is de-selected. Click and drag (anywhere on the screen) selects the text as you drag along it (as you would expect). I've got an idea about double-clicking, I'll look into i...

There is no usable information in the releasenotes that isn't already in the Autodocs. The releasenotes just say things like:
"V53.6: fixed a bug in name-handling (BZ #6777)". If you're lucky. Many devs don't even say that much.

Well, in the new console (which you guys will get a hold of as soon as you get the latest beta releases), you can click anywhere on the command line to move the cursor there. Double-clicking to select a word is a bit difficult, because the console.device gets the double-click but the con-handler is ...

You can think of lots of "shortcuts" like that, but you end up with so many low-level features that only a few users can remember them and most people don't use them. Also (and this is the worst part) maintaining such code is a horrible job. If that is what fingus wants, I'd suggest that b...