Debugging GDI crash - anyone help?

2001-01-21 Thread davep
I'm trying to track down a crash in a commercial application (Lotus 123 '97) and would appreciate some advice on how to proceed. The application crashes while painting its splash screen due to the use of a null pointer in a function called from X11DRV_BitBlt. Tracing back, things begin to go

Bug report: LOAD_LIBRARY_AS_DATAFILE and accessing resources

2001-01-21 Thread Dmitry Timoshkov
Hello all. Some time ago, when I was testing standard USER controls with the new unicode stuff, I encountered the following problem not related to controls at all. One of my test applications is Adobe PageMaker 6.5. It loads its plugins and initializes menu with strings loaded from the plugin

Re: Debugging GDI crash - anyone help?

2001-01-21 Thread davep
On Sun, 21 Jan 2001, you wrote: Looking at the X11DRV driver there are quite a few places where the GDI_GetObjPtr return value is not tested; how about returning the appropriate error code in case of failure ? Quick and easy, and also the Right Thing (TM). Yes I wondered about that. The

several questions about registry

2001-01-21 Thread Martin Pilka
hello! 1) in case of win95/98/me we load the content of %windir%/user.dat registry file under HKEY_USERS/.DEFAULT key. the real windows doesn't do it - they load under HKEY_USERS key. on my system there're two keys in mentioned user.dat file which do not belong under HKEY_USERS/.DEFAULT, so

Re: Debugging GDI crash - anyone help?

2001-01-21 Thread Andreas Mohr
On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 07:07:00PM +0100, gerard patel wrote: At 03:53 PM 1/21/01 +, you wrote: Yes I wondered about that. The problem is, what is the Right Thing - fail the BitBlt operation? Also Alexandre mentioned a few days ago that he was not keen on rippling errors back up the

Re: Debugging GDI crash - anyone help?

2001-01-21 Thread gerard patel
At 03:53 PM 1/21/01 +, you wrote: Yes I wondered about that. The problem is, what is the Right Thing - fail the BitBlt operation? Also Alexandre mentioned a few days ago that he was not keen on rippling errors back up the function chain if nothing useful could be done at the top-level. In

Re: unsigned chars

2001-01-21 Thread Alexandre Julliard
Josh DuBois [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: While it does seem better in principle to me to have to use 'signed char' in situations where you care about sign, I don't like the fact that, unless we make all chars signed by default on all platforms, I don't think we can preserve char* LPSTR as the

Re: I've tried to change keyboard table.. No good...

2001-01-21 Thread Dmitry Timoshkov
"Joao clemente" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was thinking of changing the keybord settings in X11 so that I try to find out something else about this matter... Do you think it's worth triying? ( lame question : I do that in Xf86config file, right?) Btw... do you think I can read some