[BUG] 2.7 Strange Windows behavior

Raab, Andreas Andreas.Raab at disney.com
Thu Feb 3 04:37:22 UTC 2000


Michael,

> Platform: Windows 98
> Maximize Squeak Window.  Background color doesn't scale to 
> whole screen.

That's not a bug - you have to choose 'Restore Display' from the screen
menu.

> Open System Browser (I'm working thru BankAccount tutorial) 
> and move off of
> background color (just to see if its a just a display problem) I get:
> 
> SetDIBitsToDevice failed (183) -- Cannot create a file when that file
> already exists.

That's a bug in your graphics drivers. The error message should actually
mean something that is *really* problematic (if SetDIBitsToDevice fails it
means you shouldn't see anything at all in Squeak) but it seems that the
returned value from the function is pretty much random. And the error
message even more so - according to the documentation it is set when the
function returns an error code but I've never seen a meaningful message
here. Sigh. I'll probably just remove the error check...

  Andreas





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