Evening all,
I've spent some free time today examining a problem I've been having for
some time. LibGen (anyone remember that?) when executed displays the
window on screen and works fine until I exit from the program. At that
point, QPC no longer is able to receive the cursor - it passes behind
the QPC window as opposed to over the top of it.
I should point out that QPC 4.0 is running on Mint Linux 17.1, 64 bit,
under Wine.
I know what the problem is, I created the window for LibGen without an
application sub-window menu, so I simply added one in manually, but I
screwed up! I think the major fault was defining the pointer to the menu
items status block to be zero when obviously, that means it's the same
status area as the entire Window's status area. There may well have been
other problems!
I've rolled back my changes and the code works fine, and when I ESC, QPC
stays usable. Hooray. So, WM_SETUP returns no errors, ever. It's says so
in the documentation. Does anyone have any clues as to why this should be?
It's (obviously) clear that errors should occur in WM_SETUP when someone
like me does something stupid. Even after all these years, I still find
bits appear to be missing from the docs. Pan/Scroll control block
definitions, for example, where are they in the Window Definition docs?
Nowhere (that I can find anyway) although there is mention of them in
the Window Working Definition docs.
I haven't looked at the code, nor am I requesting/demanding/hinting that
someone should do something about it. I'm just wondering why this quite
important feature of WMAN should care so little about the correct setup
of the window definition data.
End of eRant! ;-)
Cheers,
Norm.
--
Norman Dunbar
Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd
Registered address:
27a Lidget Hill
Pudsey
West Yorkshire
United Kingdom
LS28 7LG
Company Number: 05132767
_______________________________________________
QL-Users Mailing List
http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
