RE: [wxhaskell-users] (no subject)

[herington, d. <her...@em...>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Daan Leijen [mailto:da...@cs...] 
> Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2004 2:48 AM
> To: herington, dean
> Cc: 'wxh...@li...'
> Subject: Re: [wxhaskell-users] (no subject)
> 
> herington, dean wrote:
> > I'm using wxhaskell-0.8 on Windows XP.  When starting it 
> up, I get a 
> > error dialog with:
> >  
> > Ghc Error
> > Can't load bitmap 'wxBITMAP_STD_COLOURS' from resources! 
> Check .rc file.
> >  
> > What's it mean?  What is the .rc file?  (I thought that was 
> an X thing.)
> 
> It is a windows resource file that is normally compiled into 
> your .exe.
> Do you use a debug version of wxHaskell? In principle, you should not
> get this message with a release version (even though it is harmless, 
> right?).

I'm using the standard version from
wxhaskell-bin-msw2.4.2-ghc6.2.1-0.8-0.zip.
The message is harmless in that, once you dismiss it, things work fine.

> 
> I think you get when using certain message dialogs right? I believe
> it is fixed in wxWidgets 2.5.x but I will look into it and see if
> it can be fixed manually by me for the next release of wxHaskell.
> (is it a critical thing for you?)

I'm not (knowingly) using any dialogs.
It's not currently critical for me.

> 
> All the best,
>   Daan.

Thanks!  I'm enjoying learning to do some GUI programming with wxhaskell.

Dean