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From: johnm@spudge.UUCP (John Munsch)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms.programmer
Subject: Re: What do I do with stale window handles? (GetDesktopWindow() )
Keywords: Handles, Stale, Release, Destroy
Message-ID: <28222@spudge.UUCP>
Date: 8 Mar 91 14:53:23 GMT
References: <1991Mar6.215823.3216@ssd.kodak.com>
Reply-To: johnm@spudge.UUCP (John Munsch)
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Organization: Friends of Guru Bob
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In article <1991Mar6.215823.3216@ssd.kodak.com> thomas@ssd.kodak.com (Thomas B. Kinsman (37681)) writes:
>	hwndDisplay = GetDesktopWindow();
>	MessageBox(hwndDisplay,
>		   (LPSTR) "Something went horribly wrong",
>		   (LPSTR) "on a call to : Process(foo, bar)", MB_OK);

We had mysterious crashes when we did what you are doing now.  I have no idea
why (Windows works in mysterious ways), but I do have a suggestion for a fix.
Try MessageBox(NULL, ...) instead and I don't believe you'll have any more
problems.
 
John Munsch
"Go buy some more Mac Classics, Apple has lawyers to pay."