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Article #1108Actor killed -! my windows...
From: Peter C. Bahrs
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 1991 05:59
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 1991 05:59
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Actor is great. I wish it compiled. The OO design philosophies beat C++ any day (my opinion, no flames please). But, It just killed win3. I was using object graphics in the work window. I did not dissassociate the port (release hDC). I closed the window that had the open port. KABOOOM. Windows either froze or went back to c:\. In any case, every time I restarted windows, it went back to c:\. I found a cure (thought I would have to reinstall everything). Apparently, something was left in the fixed swapfile that made windows shut off. I killed the swapfile with norton utilites and removed the .par file. Phew! Windows came back up ok, actor works fine now and I created a new swapfile. My suggestion to Whitewater (they used to monitor this group): write a compiler. The power, flexibility, and simplicity of the Actor syntax and environment is awesome. However, the multithreaded envt. in windows seems to be a pain to an interpretive environment. /*----------- Thanks in advance... --------------------------------------+ | Peter C. Bahrs | | The USL-NASA Project | | Center For Advanced Computer Studies INET: pcb@swamp.cacs.usl.edu | | 2 Rex Street | | University of Southwestern Louisiana ...!uunet!dalsqnt!gator!pcb | | Lafayette, LA 70504 | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------*/
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!apple!julius.cs.uiuc.edu!usc!samsung!rex!rouge!basin03.cacs.usl.edu From: pcb@basin03.cacs.usl.edu (Peter C. Bahrs) Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms.programmer Subject: Actor killed -! my windows... Message-ID: <23614@rouge.usl.edu> Date: 22 Jan 91 05:59:01 GMT Sender: anon@rouge.usl.edu Organization: The Center for Advanced Computer Studies Lines: 29 Originator: pcb@basin03.cacs.usl.edu