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Re: ACCESS VIOLATION in IBMDEV32.DLL

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From: James Lawrence Weinkam
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 00:26
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dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap) writes:

>In article <weinkam.726789764@sfu.ca> weinkam@fraser.sfu.ca (James Lawrence Weinkam) writes:
>>I wrote a program to display each character of the selected font in
>>sequence.  The font is selected by means of the WinFontDlg procedure.
>>Once the font is selected, I do a GpiCreateLogFont using the fAttrs 
>>returned from WinFontDlg.  Then I do a GpiSetCharSet, GpiSetCharBox,
>>GpiQueryFontMetrics, GpiQueryCharStringPos to set the current font set,
>>size and to determine the height and width of the String to be displayed.
>>All these functions work perfectly.  I then do a GpiCharString using the
>>same string as was used in the GpiQueryCharStringPos.  
>>
>>If the selected font is the Symbol Set font, and the size is greater 
>>than 100 points I get an ACCESS VIOLATION AT LOCATION 1ADC791D in
>>IBMDEV32.DLL 

>What display driver are you using?  IBMDEV32.DLL is your display
>driver, much like DISPLAY.DLL was under the 16-bit graphics engine.
>If it's not an IBM driver, you must contact the vendor that supplied
>the driver.
>
I am currently using the standard VGA display driver that was installed
by the service pack, thus it is an IBM driver.

James Weinkam 
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From: weinkam@fraser.sfu.ca (James Lawrence Weinkam)
Subject: Re: ACCESS VIOLATION in IBMDEV32.DLL
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