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Re: more window help

• Posted by Derek Parnell <ddparnell at bigpond.com> Aug 05, 2003
• 442 views

That is a "feature" of the Win 9x family. I get it occassionally, even when
never running a win32lib app since booting.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "George Walters" <gwalters at sc.rr.com>
To: "EUforum" <EUforum at topica.com>
Subject: Re: more window help


> 
> 
> 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>
> Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2003 10:40 AM
> 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
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > TOPICA - Start your own email discussion group. FREE!
> > > > >
> > > > >
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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
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