I am sure I used the class once. But I can't remember when or in what project!
> -----Original Message----- > From: Jason Teagle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 17 June 2004 13:27 > To: MSVC At BeginThread > Subject: [msvc] OT: CBitmapDC Article Update > > > If anyone has tried to use the CBitmapDC class from my > article, they may have found that under Win9X / WinME it > causes crashes. I myself finally got a reason to put it in a > project, and I couldn't understand why it seemed to work fine > under WinXP for me, but relentlessly bombed out under Win98 > for my friends. Well, I tracked it down finally and it turned > out to be some shamefully sloppy attempts at short-cutting > the class variable initialisation process by calling my own > public routines to theoretically give variables their first > known value. Sadly, those routines were checking variables to > make sure they didn't do anything stupid, but of course in > this case the variables hadn't been initialised yet - that > was the whole point of me calling those routines at construction time! > > That was a lesson well learned. INITIALISE VARIABLES > MANUALLY, NOT THROUGH PUBLIC ROUTINES. Doh! (If anyone is > interested in an explanation of exactly how I shot myself in > the foot, I'm prepared to humiliate myself publicy by > demonstrating with a code sample). > > So I've updated the H and CPP files for that class in the > article > (http://www.beginthread.com/Article/Jason%20Teagle/CBitmapDC%2 0Helper%20Clas s/). I hope this will resolve any nightmares it has caused people, it sure resolved on for me last night {;v) -- Jason Teagle [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ msvc mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] See http://beginthread.com/mailman/listinfo/msvc_beginthread.com for subscription changes, and list archive. This email and any attached files are confidential and copyright protected. If you are not the addressee, any dissemination of this communication is strictly prohibited. Unless otherwise expressly agreed in writing, nothing stated in this communication shall be legally binding. _______________________________________________ msvc mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] See http://beginthread.com/mailman/listinfo/msvc_beginthread.com for subscription changes, and list archive.
