OpenEuphoria

Re: more window help

• Posted by George Walters <gwalters at sc.rr.com> Aug 05, 2003
• 416 views

Al, the button on the task bar has no text or icon on it. it's a button
that's completelyl blank..and of course the one that was missing althgether.

george


----- Original Message -----
From: "Al Getz" <Xaxo at aol.com>
To: "EUforum" <EUforum at topica.com>
Subject: RE: more window help


>
>
> George Walters wrote:
> >
> >
> > Well, this morning this 2nd window does show up on the task bar, so
> > there
> > apparently is no real problem with this. A reboot apparently fixed the
> > problem...I now remember that I was having some problem with blank
> > taskbar
> > items I thought was caused by our font bug. Perhaps it also can lose the
> > button as well.
> >
> > george
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "George Walters" <gwalters at sc.rr.com>
> > To: "EUforum" <EUforum at topica.com>
> > Sent: Monday, August 04, 2003 7:33 PM
> > Subject: Re: more window help
> >
> >
> > > Derek, here's the statements which launch the 2nd program from the
> > > first..
> > >
> > >             temp = system_exec ("exw.exe "&subIndex[i]&".exw",2)
> > >             if temp!= 0 then
> > >                 temp = message_box("Execution error - program not
> > > found","",0)
> > >
> > > george
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Derek Parnell" <ddparnell at bigpond.com>
> > > To: "EUforum" <EUforum at topica.com>
> > > Sent: Monday, August 04, 2003 5:48 PM
> > > Subject: Re: more window help
> > >
> > >
> > > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > > From: "George Walters" <gwalters at sc.rr.com>
> > > > To: "EUforum" <EUforum at topica.com>
> > > > Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2003 6:30 AM
> > > > Subject: more window help
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > > I launch a program from an EU menu program (one I wrote) and the
2nd
> > > program
> > > > > creates a window in which to run and display stuff in the status
bar
> > as
> > > it
> > > > > runs . The problem I have is that if I session away (click to
another
> > > > > program on the task bar), I can never get back to the window. It
does
> > > not
> > > > > show up on the task bar... here's the window.. what have I done
> > > wrong....
> > > > >
> > > > >  display = create(Window,pgmNm & " - " & pgmTitle,
> > > > >     0,sx,sy,sw,sh,{WS_CAPTION,WS_POPUP})
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > Don't know George, it works for me just fine. How are you launching
this
> > > program?
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > Derek
> > > >
> > > >
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> Hello there George,
>
> That's very interesting.  I noticed i have this problem too
> sometimes (win 98 os) but when using a very very old version
> of the Win32Lib (~1998).
> This problem, for me anyway, is so rare (1 out of every 50 runs)
> that i never bothered to hunt down the cause of it, and, at least
> this particular problem, goes away as soon as i click on the
> blank iconized window on the task bar.  The iconized window goes
> away and that seems to be the end of it.
>
> It is interesting that this is a close out problem too though,
> because the only time you see the blank iconized window on the
> task bar is AFTER the application is closed out.  It never
> happens while the app is running.
> This makes me wonder if something isnt destroyed (or released)
> properly in the older library and maybe the new too.
> I doubt i'll try to track this down however, because like i said,
> it's so rare and when it does happen it goes away as soon as i
> click the blank inconized window.
>
> You did mean blank iconized window or just blank icons in your post?
>
> Take care for now,
> Al
>
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