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From: pcb@basin03.cacs.usl.edu (Peter C. Bahrs)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms.programmer
Subject: Actor killed -! my windows...
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Date: 22 Jan 91 05:59:01 GMT
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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.


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