OpenEuphoria

RE: EXW Crashes

• Posted by Bernie Ryan <xotron at localnet.com> Jun 18, 2001
• 376 views

francis at gmx.co.uk wrote:
> I'm having memory troubles
> 
> At the bottom is code which replicates a common error I've been,err, 
> causing
> after trying to implemenet Dialog boxes within euphoria.
> 
> The for loop after WM_INITDIALOG causes an error in "EXW.EXE: Invalid
> instruction[arbritary memory address] tried to read from #FFFFFFFF which
> could not be read from." or sometheing similar to that. If I print out 
> the
> allocate result each time in the for loop it never fails and sets itself 
> to
> #FFFFFFFF, I thought it returned 0 if it failed anyway. It always fails 
> in
> the second round of the loop too.
> 
> ARGH! I've tried many situations like code like this but it always 
> causes an
> exception in EXW.EXE and is always ONLY after a modal dialog is created 
> by
> DialogBoxIndirectParam() or modeless by CreateDialogIndirectParam(). 
> from
> user32.dll. Putting this stuff into
> 
> atom pstr
> function DlgProc(atom hwnd,atom iMsg, atom wParam, atom lParam)
> 
>  if iMsg = WM_INITDIALOG then
> 
>   for i = 1 to 10 do
>     pstr  = allocate(100)
>     poke(pstr,sprintf("%d",i))
>    c_proc(pSendMessage,{hwnd,WM_SETTEXT,0,pstr})
>    free(pstr)
>   end for
> 
>   return 0
>  elsif iMsg = WM_CLOSE then
>   c_proc(xEndDialog,{hwnd,0})
>  end if
> 
>  return 0
> end function
> 
 
francis:
  First it is a good idea to initialize any structure or
  storage to all zeros.
  Second any sz string MUST end with a NULL or Zero
Bernie