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From: memetral@athena.mit.edu (Max E. Metral)
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Date: 12 Jun 91 16:00:37 GMT
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MY QUESTION:

>
>I am trying to call MessageBox() from a Dialog Box.  If I call
>it with MB(hDlg, (LPSTR) "No filename specified", NULL, MB...);
>
>the string is not displayed, and junk is in it's place, and memory
>is cold screwed up.
>
>If I call it with a string used elsewhere in the program, defined at the
>top as:
>	static char DefSpec[10] = "*.*";
>
>It works.
>
>But if I define my own:
>	static char Err[100] = "Yo mama";
>
>I get the same error.
>
>Any clues??????

THE ANSWER:

You did export your dialog box proc, right?  9.998 times out of 10, this is
what it is.  

MAKE THAT 9.999 out of 10....

THE STUD:

	Aaron Wallace

Thanks a million.

Can someone explain why this happens (at a somewhat low level)?

--==<Max Metral>==--