XWin causes Windows apps to hang(?)
Alexander Gottwald
alexander.gottwald@s1999.tu-chemnitz.de
Tue Feb 24 12:48:00 GMT 2004
On Sun, 22 Feb 2004, Alexander Gottwald wrote:
> winProcSetSelectionOwner - OpenClipboard () failed: 00000000
> winProcSetSelectionOwner - OpenClipboard () failed: 00000000
>
> 0 is ERROR_SUCCESS which means "The operation completed successfully"
> I guess the clipboard was opened successfully but returned a wrong
> error condition. After bailing out we leave the clipboard in an open
> state and other programs can not access it anymore.
>
> I guess this is worth a try:
>
> from winclipboardwrappers.c:461
>
> /* Access the Windows clipboard */
> if (!OpenClipboard (g_hwndClipboard))
> {
> DWORD errorcode = GetLastError();
> ErrorF ("winProcSetSelectionOwner - OpenClipboard () failed: %08x\n",
> (int) errorcode);
> if (errorcode != ERROR_SUCCESS)
> goto winProcSetSelectionOwner_Done;
> }
This was a deadend too. The call to EmptyClipboard now returned an error
stating the clipboard was not open.
bye
ago
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