Can't get "Information" from Workbench icons

[mbrantley]

Hmmm. I'm really scratching my head over this one. On my 3000 running OS 3.9, when I select an icon and either do the Amiga-I thing or choose Information from the Icons menu, I get nothing. The Information window does not appear.

Anybody have an idea what my problem is?

[mbrantley]

This has been the strangest problem I've encountered on this platform. Could not get info on icons and also couldn't rename icons. Odd stuff. I never got to the bottom of it, and so ultimately I have started from scratch and reinstalled everything on the System partion and now everything works as it should.

Weird. Probably something I did -- so I'll try not to do it again, whatever it was!

[mbrantley]

Nah, all the .info files didn't disappear. I could see all the icons like normal. But for some unexplained reason I could not show the Information window or even rename ANY icon anywhere.

With a clearer head today (and it's not too clear since I just tried to do Amiga-M to switch programs on a Mac) I believe I screwed up something to do with the GUI libraries installed. MUI, ClassAct, ReAction, or something. I don't even remember what all was installed before, but it was way out of hand after moving files around between Amigas.

Either one thing conflicted with another or was missing a needed component.

[mbrantley]

Phantom wrote:
Try uninstall ClassAct and MUI first, and leave only ReAction to see if it works.

...or try SnoopDos to see if you can catch anything.

Too late, as I already became so frustrated with the whole situation that I reformatted the SYS: partition and reinstalled OS 3.9, BB 1 and 2 and my own utilities, fonts and user-startup assigns.

I think perhaps ClassAct is not installed now and could have been my problem. Likely was, in fact, as I recall a ClassAct installation script was among the stuff on either the X-Surf driver CD or the EasyNet CD (don't remember which) that I was fussing with yesterday.

Anyway, it's all working now, including the new X-Surf card.

I'm not up to it today, but I've got to get file sharing working now that I have three Amigas on the network. Another day, another thread!

Thanks for the advice, guys.

[mbrantley]

Matt_H wrote:
ClassAct and ReAction are the same thing. ReAction is built into 3.9, so don't install ClassAct over it - it's older and will break things, resulting in the symptoms you describe.

That's exactly what happened then. Live and learn.

Thanks, Matt, and everyone.