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In article <1992Oct1.172605.15912@bnr.ca>, stu9r22@bnr.ca (Ian Lowrie) writes:
> As a fledgling OS/2 programmer, I've been trying to use the common file
> open/close dialog box.  Unfortunately, I can't get it to work. :(
> 
> I use Watcom C/386 v9, with the OS/2 headers from GCC suitably modified.

Watcom now distribute the headers for OS/2 2.0 with the patches available from
their bulletin board. (3 disks 1.44M each, just over 2M compressed together).

> The problem is, the box terminates the program in three cases:
>    1) Double clicking a file name
>    2) opening one, then the other of the type/drive comboboxes
>    3) hitting OK doesn't return a proper filename
> 
> I'm basing my code on the example in the Application Development RedBook.
> 
> If someone could post an example of how to use this, I would really 
> appreciate it (or at least point me to an example that works).
> 
> Please post, since the email address above is probably wrong...
> Stephen Drye
> 
> PS: Does Watcom's _beginthread automatically allocate the stack for the 
> thread like C/Set 2, or do I have to allocate the stack myself (different
> problem).  Heeeelp!   

It uses DosCreateThread, so will probably let that allocate the stack if you
just specify a size for it.

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|  Hamish Marson   <h.marson@waikato.ac.nz>                             OS/2 |
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|  University of Waikato,                                                    |
|  Hamilton, New Zealand.                                                    |
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