Re: [GD-Windows] Messed up windows after fullscreen

[Corrinne Y. <cor...@sp...>]

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From: "Philip Taylor" <pt...@mi...>
To: <gam...@li...>
Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2001 3:39 PM
Subject: RE: [GD-Windows] Messed up windows after fullscreen


any good introductory Win32 tome should discuss, somewhat, the
initialization sequence of messages duing window creation. serious
spelunkers should be familiar with Matt Pietreks' work.

-- The bad thing is that by the time the next Matt P. book is on the shelf,
new windows messages, and message proc behaviors, for newer versions of
windows, already make some of it obsolete.

-- It eventually comes down to trial and error shared among programmers,
word of mouth with Microsoft engineers, and sometimes Microsoft seminars, on
a continual cycle.

-- This applies more to the whole "activate" "losing context" situation than
for "creation."

-- Perhaps an online up to the minute column (maintained by someone at MS,
perhaps Phil?) of "now" what is the correct way to handle deactivate, and
what kind of things would be lose, and how to handle them, (and the creation
loop again, and the shutdown process again) for each relevant version of
Windows OS version.

-- May be more contemporary.

Corrinne

P.S. It is not too bad, usually it is no more than a few lines of code to
add or change everytime new OS changes. The "bad" would be for already
released applications that doesn't get patched.