[BUG] fullScreenMode: crashes VM on Mac

Stephane Ducasse ducasse at iam.unibe.ch
Sat Jun 7 17:43:29 UTC 2003


I'm also using a virtual desktop. John lets me know if you need that I 
try without the virtual desktop.

Stef


On Saturday, June 7, 2003, at 06:48 PM, Ned Konz wrote:

> On Saturday 07 June 2003 09:29 am, 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.
>
> I'm using a multi-desktop switcher for Windows (part of the M$
> PowerToys package), and the Squeak VM complains in its debug log
> every time I switch desktops. I think that all the switcher does is
> to re-position the invisible windows so they don't show.
>
> Perhaps there's an assumption somewhere that the Squeak window is
> within the screen coordinates?
>
> -- 
> Ned Konz
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>
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