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From: bob@omni.com (Bob Weissman)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.misc
Subject: Re: WIN device busy creating iconic SunView window
Summary: It's documented after all
Keywords: SunView, windows
Message-ID: <844@borabora.omni.com>
Date: 25 Aug 89 19:56:26 GMT
References: <807@koosh.omni.com> <839@borabora.omni.com>
Organization: OMNI Solutions, Mountain View, CA
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In article <839@borabora.omni.com>, I wrote:
<In article <807@koosh.omni.com>, I wrote:
<
<> I'm writing a program which creates a window in SunView1 (on a 4/110
<> running SunOS 4.0.3, if that matters).  Everything works fine, except that
<> if I start the window iconic with -Wi, I always get
<>   WIN ioctl number 20006703: Device busy
<> and then the icon appears perfectly and everything is fine.
<> 
<> I've read all the documentation (over and over and over...) and can not
<> for the life of me figure out how to get rid of this message.
> It turns out that you must specify the FRAME_ARGC_PTR_ARGV parameter in
> the initial call to window_create().  If you specify it in a subsequent
> call to window_set(), you get the "device busy" message.

Sigh.  This is documented on page 382 of the SunView1 Programmer's Guide.

If only window_set() was smart enough to complain about invalid arguments,
I would have fixed this in ten seconds...

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