According to one of my colleages there is a setting to be added somewhere in
win.ini to have Win98 adopt the Win95 behaviour for this. He can't remember
what this is but knows it is on the borland FAQ somewhere.
Any help?
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
> Behalf Of BJ Wilson
> Sent: Friday, 21 May 1999 10:06
> To: Multiple recipients of list delphi
> Subject: RE: [DUG]: D4 and Win98
>
>
> >> when you put a breakpoint in, it doesn't jump back to D4,
> just flashes
> in the task bar?
>
> Happens here too. I wouldn't say it's unusable, but it
> certainly is a pain
> in the neck (to manually switch tasks). It's a Win98 thing,
> and I think
> it's designed to avoid confusion on computer rookies who might not
> understand why - in Win95, say - another application just
> popped up while
> they had their eyes down on the keyboard and were merrily
> typing away in
> their application of choice. So now in Win98 the attention-seeking
> minimized app just flashes down at the bottom and says, "When you're
> finished doing what you're doing, I need attention". The
> intention is
> nice, but I personally don't care if apps pop up when they require
> attention, particularly if I'm debugging.
>
> Wouldn't surprise me if there's something hidden in the
> Registry somewhere
> to disable this politeness. Is anybody aware of it?
>
> Cheers.
> BJ...
>
> ----------
> From: Chris Crowe[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Reply To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Thursday, 20 May 1999 23:06
> To: Multiple recipients of list delphi
> Subject: RE: [DUG]: D4 and Win98
>
> How do you handle using D4 with Win98, when you put a
> breakpoint in, it
> doesn't jump back to D4, just flashes in the task bar? Well
> it does for me.
> Unusable to me.....
>
> Chris
>
> Christopher Crowe (Software Developer)
> Microsoft MVP, MCP
>
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>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
> > Behalf Of BJ Wilson
> >
> Sent: Thursday, 20 May 1999 12:01
> > To: Multiple recipients of list delphi
> > Subject: [DUG]: D4 and Win98
> >
> >
> > Hi all.
> >
> > We've been finding a fair amount of instability with Delphi 4
> > under Windows 98 and a few of us have reverted to Win95 to fix
> > the problem.
> >
> > Specifically, we've encountered the following:
> > - Invalid pointer operation when trying to step through code
> > - Balloon hints causing crashes when you hang around on a button
> > and it shows you the hint (this is an explorer error).
> >
> > Has anybody else experienced instability under Win98 - could it
> > be the Win98/D4 combination, or can we just blame Microsoft?
> >
> > Cheers.
> > BJ...
> >
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