OpenEuphoria

Windows XP wierdness

• Posted by daryl_vdb at hotmail.com May 16, 2003
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This is not OT

There seems to be some problems with win32lib on windows XP.  The wierd part 
about it is that it only shows up when the "modern style" theme is used.  I 
didn't notice it until recently because I always use the classic windows 
2000 look on my computer, and all my windows euphoria programs work fine.  
But when I switched to the modern theme, my wave editor crashed on startup.  
The error was "variable not assigned a value".  The variable causing the 
problem is initially assigned a value in the w32HResize event, which should 
occur when a window is opened.

It became ovbious that the w32HResize event is not occurring when the window 
is opened.  But how could the theme be causing this?  You would think a 
theme would affect only the look of the window, not its behaviour.

Even wierder is the fact that I tried calling setRect in the main window's 
open event (it's a child window that's causing the problem) to trigger a 
resize event, and it still didn't work.

I don't know whether this is a bug in win32lib or another stupid decision by 
microsoft.  If anyone else knows about this, any help to solve the problem 
would be appreciated.  I'm using win32lib 0.57.9 (maybe that's the 
problem?).

thanks,
Daryl Van Den Brink