"Andreas Raab" <andreas.raab at gmx.de> 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.
Interesting - I had _exactly_ that problem on RiscOS a while back; my
solution was to null out the VMs handle for the bitmap until the next
time ioDisplay-whatever was called and the bitmap got rebuilt to the new
size. It works but there is a rather annoying delay while it all gets
worked out.

tim
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