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From: gandalf@abyss (gandalf)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms.programmer
Subject: Re: Strange things are afoot at the Win Kernel...
Message-ID: <68eR41w164w@abyss>
Date: 18 Jun 91 23:03:16 GMT
References: <1991Jun9.222842.28525@athena.mit.edu>
Organization: The Abyss BBS!, Mt. Juliet TN
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memetral@athena.mit.edu (Max E. Metral) writes:

> 
> Wierd thing happened yesterday.
> 
> Trying to pop us a MessageBox() from a dialog box.  Apparently my 
> app was clobbering something.  As soon as the Mbox appeared, the root 
> background was changed to a screen like this:
> 
> WIN3
> developers:
> joes jimk sarahf ...
> ...
> ...
> ...
> 
> usered:
> joes jimk sarahf...
> ...
> ...
> 
> etc,etc
> 
> Neat!  Anybody ever encountered this before?
> 
> --==<Max Metral>==--

I've heard of this background before, but from a user standpoint, not a 
programmer. Apparently, the same "undocumented feature" that a user can 
access using a complicated set of clicks & types was what you accomplished 
with your application's call under those circumstances.


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