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There's a bug in notepad that lets you turn your computer into a marquee. Making the text big and turning off wordwrap causes the text rendering to lag behind y
by macromaniac 5y ago
There's a bug in notepad that lets you turn your computer into a marquee. Making the text big and turning off wordwrap causes the text rendering to lag behind your typing. Here is a demo video I threw together. It's good to have in your pocket for if you're ever bored at fry's or something, that said the update speed is a bit jarring.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-Y9oeCWeGc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-Y9oeCWeGc
- drfuchs 5y agoUnhappily, you can’t be at Fry’s anymore, bored or otherwise.
- mannerheim 5y agoWell, maybe if you're in Arizona, where it lives on as a grocery chain.
- olyjohn 5y agoI didn't think there was actually any relation...
- shadowofneptune 5y agoI thought that was true as well, but the connection appears to be the Fry family. The grocery stores got sold to Kroger, but the family kept the electronics business.
- 13of40 5y agoAbout 20 or so years ago, I was working at Microsoft and decided to see if I could find a bug in Notepad. With a bit of playing around I actually got it to crash with an access violation by doing something like scaling the font to a gigantic size, then print(preview?)ing it. Coincidentally, around the same time I attended a small talk by the guy who was listed as the current dev owner for it, so I tapped him on the shoulder afterwards and told him about it. Before listening to the repro steps, he assured me with complete confidence it was not a notepad bug and that I should go step through it for another look. I did, and he was right, it was a bug in the user mode part of the printer driver.
- brokenmachine 5y agoIt's always the printer driver.
- saagarjha 5y agoSeems like you've stumbled upon some accidentally quadratic performance!