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Re^2: Actor specific questions

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From: Ken Dickey
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1991 17:46
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adw@otter.hpl.hp.com (Dave Wells) writes:

>This seems to allow you to get into the debugger reliably. If you keep
>hitting "OK" on the debug dialog, however, ACTOR siezes up after a few more
>repaints - cause unknown.

In all cases of this type I have seen, code is (recursively) grabbing new
instances of the Windows drawing context and not giving it up.  As there
are a limited number of these (Windows resource limit), Windows dies.

-Ken Dickey					kend@data.uucp
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From: kend@data.UUCP (Ken Dickey)
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