RE: [GD-Windows] Nasty GUI bug

[Andrew G. <ag...@cl...>]

I've seen things like that before, and when it's happened I've found I've
been trashing memory somewhere.

Weird I know, but there you go.

Andy @ 
Climax Brighton 



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pierre Terdiman [mailto:p.t...@wa...]
> Sent: 10 October 2002 22:08
> To: gam...@li...
> Subject: [GD-Windows] Nasty GUI bug
> 
> 
> 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
> 
> 
> 
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