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Offline motorollin

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Re: Background won't go away in 3.9
« on: November 04, 2007, 06:58:47 PM »
Make sure there's not another window open or an icon selected which you might be inadvertently snapshotting instead of the backdrop. Then turn the backdrop on and snapshot, and it should remember to put the backdrop on every time.

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10  IT\'S THE FINAL COUNTDOWN
20  FOR C = 1 TO 2
30     DA-NA-NAAAA-NAAAA DA-NA-NA-NA-NAAAA
40     DA-NA-NAAAA-NAAAA DA-NA-NA-NA-NA-NA-NAAAAA
50  NEXT C
60  NA-NA-NAAAA
70  NA-NA NA-NA-NA-NA-NAAAA NAAA-NAAAAAAAAAAA
80  GOTO 10
 

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Re: Background won't go away in 3.9
« Reply #1 on: November 04, 2007, 07:18:23 PM »
IIRC you tick the backdrop option to turn the border off. Are you able to snapshot any other windows?

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Code: [Select]
10  IT\'S THE FINAL COUNTDOWN
20  FOR C = 1 TO 2
30     DA-NA-NAAAA-NAAAA DA-NA-NA-NA-NAAAA
40     DA-NA-NAAAA-NAAAA DA-NA-NA-NA-NA-NA-NAAAAA
50  NEXT C
60  NA-NA-NAAAA
70  NA-NA NA-NA-NA-NA-NAAAA NAAA-NAAAAAAAAAAA
80  GOTO 10
 

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Re: Background won't go away in 3.9
« Reply #2 on: November 04, 2007, 09:37:50 PM »
Also did you install from an Emergency Disk (even if it was an ADF of an Emergency Disk). Strange problems like this sometimes occur if you don't install that way.

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Code: [Select]
10  IT\'S THE FINAL COUNTDOWN
20  FOR C = 1 TO 2
30     DA-NA-NAAAA-NAAAA DA-NA-NA-NA-NAAAA
40     DA-NA-NAAAA-NAAAA DA-NA-NA-NA-NA-NA-NAAAAA
50  NEXT C
60  NA-NA-NAAAA
70  NA-NA NA-NA-NA-NA-NAAAA NAAA-NAAAAAAAAAAA
80  GOTO 10
 

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Re: Background won't go away in 3.9
« Reply #3 on: November 04, 2007, 11:27:35 PM »
Ahhh AmigaHeretic's comment about read only files has just made me think of something. Did you install in to a directory on your Windows partition, or in to a UAE hardfile? Because sometimes files can lose their protection bits or become read only if they are in a directory, which might be causing your problem.

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Code: [Select]
10  IT\'S THE FINAL COUNTDOWN
20  FOR C = 1 TO 2
30     DA-NA-NAAAA-NAAAA DA-NA-NA-NA-NAAAA
40     DA-NA-NAAAA-NAAAA DA-NA-NA-NA-NA-NA-NAAAAA
50  NEXT C
60  NA-NA-NAAAA
70  NA-NA NA-NA-NA-NA-NAAAA NAAA-NAAAAAAAAAAA
80  GOTO 10