OpenEuphoria

Re: win32 and win98

• Posted by Derek Parnell <ddparnell at bigpond.com> Aug 01, 2003
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----- Original Message -----=20
From: "George Walters" <gwalters at sc.rr.com>
To: "EUforum" <EUforum at topica.com>
Subject: Re: win32 and win98


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> The programs are mostly launched from Medit (the one written in EU). =
I'm not
> using the IDE of Judith's. The programs are somewhat large, about 20 =
pages
> w/o includes. I can't reproduce it repeatedly. I'm working all day and =
I
> notice it about 3 to 4 times and then only when I check email or do
> something different do I notice the corruption. Express flat tool bar =
can
> get dorked as well as MS start > programs. etc. MS explorer has also =
had
> it's tool bar messed up. I will also say that I worked 3 days solid on =
an XP
> laptop w/o a single incident using the identical programs and =
development
> tools..... the apps are crashing and quite frequently as I write and =
debug.
> If you want one of these programs I'll try to package it up and send =
it with
> data and includes....let me know..
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Its the "apps are crashing and quite frequently" that's significant, I =
believe. Because Euphoria doesn't have any crash handler functionality, =
its near impossible (I think) to clean up when the Win32lib app crashes. =
I'll explore using the Windows exception handler stuff to see if I can =
compensate for the absence of this much-needed capability in Euphoria.=20

Also, it could be that XP is more robust in that it does some =
restoration of system fonts when apps crash.

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Derek