You may get rid of the bottom part by pressing F2 (or clicking the system menu of the Squeak window and then select "VM Preferences") and from the Debug Options you can disable (uncheck) the "Show console on error" option.

Cheers

Tansel

G.J.Tielemans at dinkel.utwente.nl wrote:

> No, the real problem is that the error-message-screen pops-up from the
> bottom and never gives that part of the screen area free again... (unless
> you restart Squeak)... Yes, you can very easy activate this bug with the
> sound-device.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lex Spoon [mailto:lex at cc.gatech.edu]
> Sent: Sunday, November 18, 2001 9:29 PM
> To: squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org
> Subject: Re: [BUG?]NT problems
>
> > Hello everybody, we work at university on PC's running Window$ NT, and =
> > sometimes at the bottom of the screen appears a message that the =
> > specified controller is already used and after that we can keep on =
> > working on Squeak but the bottom of the screen can't be used (we can't =
> > use supplies, widgets, etc.)
> > Does anybody know what's the problem and how to fix it?
> >
>
> Is the "controller" the sound device, by any chance?  If so, try turning
> off the preference soundStopWhenDone.
>
> -Lex