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Article #3330Re: Strange things are afoot at the Win Kernel...
From: gandalf
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 1991 23:03
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 1991 23:03
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memetral@athena.mit.edu (Max E. Metral) writes:
>
> Wierd thing happened yesterday.
>
> Trying to pop us a MessageBox() from a dialog box. Apparently my
> app was clobbering something. As soon as the Mbox appeared, the root
> background was changed to a screen like this:
>
> WIN3
> developers:
> joes jimk sarahf ...
> ...
> ...
> ...
>
> usered:
> joes jimk sarahf...
> ...
> ...
>
> etc,etc
>
> Neat! Anybody ever encountered this before?
>
> --==<Max Metral>==--
I've heard of this background before, but from a user standpoint, not a
programmer. Apparently, the same "undocumented feature" that a user can
access using a complicated set of clicks & types was what you accomplished
with your application's call under those circumstances.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mjbtn!raider!brainiac!abyss!gandalf From: gandalf@abyss (gandalf) Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms.programmer Subject: Re: Strange things are afoot at the Win Kernel... Message-ID: <68eR41w164w@abyss> Date: 18 Jun 91 23:03:16 GMT References: <1991Jun9.222842.28525@athena.mit.edu> Organization: The Abyss BBS!, Mt. Juliet TN Lines: 38