[GD-Windows] Nasty GUI bug

[Pierre T. <p.t...@wa...>]

I have a nasty bug that breaks Windows GUI big time.

Here's the context :
- Windows 98 RC2
- 3DS MAX 4.0
- A MAX plug using the MFC, among other things

And what happens :
- I run MAX, plug gets loaded and works fine for a moment.
- Then after some manipulations, the whole Windows GUI breaks down, falls
appart, goes berserk, becomes mad. Not only in MAX : in Wordpad, in Notepad,
on the desktop, well, in all other apps. Fonts change for the ugly years-old
system fonts. Icons disappear. Drag-and-drop doesn't work anymore. Notepad
don't run anymore. Paint doesn't either, saying there's not enough memory to
complete requested operation. I could go on for hours.
- Even when the whole world is fucked up, everything goes back to normal the
second I close MAX.
- And if I remove the MAX Plug, the bug never comes, so I guess it's the
guilty one.

I simply have no idea how to track that one, or what could be happening.
Ideas ?

Example of fucked-up GUI :
http://www.codercorner.com/GUI_Bug_Fileselect.jpg
http://www.codercorner.com/GUI_Bug_WordPad.jpg

The problem seems to appear on some other machines, not only mine, but not
on all of them. Most of the time, it works.

.....

Pierre