On Saturday, June 7, 2003, at 06:29 PM, Andreas Raab wrote:

>> I noticed that I got the vm crashing not 100% when I was trying on
>> DisplayScreen. Now that I retried with Smalltalk fullScreenMode: true,
>> it happens to crash it from time to time.
>
> Reminds of a bug I had (years back) in the Windows VM - I assumed that 
> the
> size of Display's bits is always up-to-date to the OS window extent 
> (which
> isn't always true since it takes a little for Squeak to recognize that 
> the
> display extent has changed) which led to crashes very much like you're
> seeing.
>
> Interestingly, this behavior would only be exposed if you invoke
> #fullscreenMode: manually (the way you did) as the "regular" methods of
> going fullscreen (through menu or the navbar) will immediately issue a
> Display restore afterwards - bringing the Display's size back to sync 
> with
> the os window extent. Might be worthwhile to check out.

Which would explain that sometimes it does not crash. I will play with 
that
still having a primitive crashing like should be fixed.

Stef

>
> Cheers,
>   - Andreas
>
>