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- From: steck@ccs.northeastern.edu (Paul Steckler)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Seamless mode bug tickle
- Message-ID: <1993Jan3.192208.1690@random.ccs.northeastern.edu>
- Date: 3 Jan 93 19:22:08 GMT
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- Organization: College of CS, Northeastern U
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- Here's a bug I found in the October beta, but I'm willing to
- bet it's still there (since it takes some work to uncover it).
- It may depend on using the VGA seamless driver, and may also
- depend on having selected "Minimize to WPS" rather than the
- default Window Viewer.
-
- Start a Windows app in seamless mode. Click on the WPS background
- so the application is no longer current. Now click on the
- application's minimize button. It takes a full second or so
- for the application to iconize. While the application is minimizing,
- hit Alt-SPACEBAR (you may want to have the Alt button already
- held down when you click on the minimize button, then hit
- SPACEBAR as the application minimizes). A Windows system menu
- should appear (it's NOT from your application, though). Choose
- Maximize, and voila -- the titlebar from an application called
- "PMShadow" appears. We can assume PMShadow has something to do
- with the seamless-mode magic. Problem is, the title bar doesn't
- seem to be responsive in any way. To make it disappear, you
- have to refresh the screen (via the WPS system menu).
-
- -- Paul
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