Diropus 4.17 on OS3.9

[rvo_nl]

Im trying to get diropus 4.17 (pre 21) to work. It keeps messing up the menu, no matter what font I select in configopus. Here's what it looks like:
 

 
I know the picture is bad, but you can clearly see there is something missing in the menu. Program works fine otherwise.
 
I'ved tried moving all directories in PROGDIR: to some other place until only the executable remained, this still didnt help. There's nothing in my SYS:C/ S/ or whatever folders, as far as I can see. Snoopdos doesnt tell me anything either, all the libs that couldnt be found are now in PROGDIR:, to no avail.
 
This happens with the latest stable (4.16) aswell as the latest beta (4.17.21) although I'm pretty sure I had it working once with 4.16.
 
Any ideas?

[rvo_nl]

hey gulliver, thanks for your reply. however, since I have just installed my machine I can guarantee you that I am not running any patches (yet)! Also, I am using .21, sorry for that. Corrected this in my post. Remember that a plain 4.16 install has the same problem. Ofcourse I did a manual and automatic install beforehand.

[rvo_nl]

well, the configfile is read from the progdir:s/ folder aswell, and thats where I keep it. I have done a clean install of OS3.9 (in fact I have done about 50 of 'em in the last months). Ofcourse I installed cybergraphx, warpup, warp3d, mui and ahi.

[rvo_nl]

hmm some good advice there, thanks. Im using BB2, btw. I am using the icon from 4.16 since the 4.17 pre 21 archive didnt have one, iirc. but I will check again. thanks for the other tips and screenshots, really helpful! need to try some things tomorrow.

[rvo_nl]

So, I uninstalled Diropus, removed everything diropus related, then reinstalled 4.16 using the installer. Copied some more stuff by hand to match rockape's screenshots. Looked for old catalogs and increased the stack. Rebooted, and started diropus..

This time only the first item of each menu appeared! Really strange. So then I copied my old 2002 .cfg file from diropus 4.13 (!) to s: and restarted. This time the menu's were correctly shown. I then removed everything diropus related, apart from the main program (still 4.16). Without my old .cfg file, the menu's appeared again. Although Snoopdos now reported a missing Topaz font, odd enough.
 
I then replaced 4.16 with the 4.17.21 beta and copied all files to progdir: again. without my old .cfg file, no menu's. With my old .cfg file, they now show up right.
 
a) looks like it is some setting in the config file then? No idea why its configged this way by default then. Any idea where I can find it? Ive tried fonts and colours. to no avail.
b) is it safe to use my old 4.13 config file with 4.17? it saves and loads okay..

[rvo_nl]

sorry, dont know what you mean. you mean its extension?

[rvo_nl]

ha! no. I will stick with diropus. its a wonderful program. but thanks, I'll have a look.

[rvo_nl]

I tried, but that didnt work. Anyway, I have done a clean install of 4.17.21 and then added some stuff (like the .HLP files) from the 4.16 archive. Still corrupt menu's. However I used my old config file and have started configuring the program. Looks like its working with the old config file!