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Re: WinLib Bugs 12/2007

• Posted by CChris <christian.cuvier at agriculture.go??.fr> Dec 14, 2007
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Al Getz wrote:
> 
> Hello there,
> 
> 
> I DL'd the latest version (i guess it is) from the archives and
> ran into a few problems.  I'll number them here...
> 
> 1.  Trying to unzip the .zip file leads to a problem (XP-SP2) that says that
>     some of the files are password protected.  This makes it harder
>     to unzip and therefore use the library.  This should be corrected.
> 

Drag and drop the files from the "compressed folder", or get a decent free unzip
utility. 7-zip is quoted often, there are many other.
I don't have the permissions to correct the native XP support for zip files. I
admit it should be corrected.

> 2.  In file w32resources.ew, in procedure setPrinterPointers,
>     apparently this function is called automatically as the lib is loaded.
>     The problem comes in when the user does not have a printer installed
>     in the system (had problems with mine so im not using it right now).
>     The vDevmodeSize variable gets loaded to -1 and this causes an
>     error 473 that states that memory can not be allocated.  The workaround
>     was to simply test this var for less than zero and load it with 256.
>     This number was picked at random just to get things booted up so
>     more research time will have to be put into this issue for whoever
>     is working on this Lib now.  Keep in mind that many systems will not
>     have a printer installed so it's a good idea to fix this.
> 

Reported already, and fixed in 70.2e to come in a few hours.

> 3.  In file version.e, in function getEuVersion(), the var s1 must
>     be made to be an object because getenv() sometimes returns an atom.
>     More appropriate testing on this var also has to be done to find
>     out if it's an atom before the length can be tested, as usual.
>     The workaround is "if atom(s1) or (not length(s1)) then"
>     but there is more code after that too that needs to be tested
>     for atom type.  This should be easy to fix.
> 

Does it? Ok, I'll guard against this. I's an odd scenario, thanks for reporting
it.

CChris

> 
> Al
> 
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