OpenEuphoria

Re: Print Preview Version 0.32.

• Posted by Pete Lomax <petelomax at blueyonder.co.uk> Nov 11, 2003
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On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 09:35:06 +1100, Derek Parnell
<ddparnell at bigpond.com> wrote:

>> I've been told the following fails on windows XP (it works on win98):
>> 
>> include win32lib.ew
>> constant
>> zwin=createEx(Window,"Zoom",0,0,30,1600,130,0,{WS_CHILD,WS_EX_TOOLWINDOW})
>> 
>> I know, WS_CHILD is wrong. My question is do you think win32lib should
>> trap this case. I know you can't guard against all my stupidity, but
>> for  version compatibility it may be better to stop it working on 98.
>> 
>
>Yes it should fail. Using WS_CHILD without speciying the parent is never going
>to work as expected. I could detect this and fail it within the library.
Also WS_CHILD was passed in the extended flags slot, so it fails even
when you do specify a parent, I think (but don't have XP so I can't
test that).

Pete
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