Re: Help with General Protection Faults under Forms 4.5 / D2000

From: Preeti Somal <psomal_at_us.oracle.com>
Date: 1996/04/05
Message-ID: <3165A2DE.B57_at_us.oracle.com>#1/1


Dan.Nichols_at_sandiegoca.attgis.com wrote:
>
> Hi Everyone:
>
> I'm hoping someone can shed some light on a problem we are having
> with Developer 2000.Dan,

This is a bug that Oracle is aware of and we have a workaround for it. The bug # is 341942. A modified hint.pll that fixes the problem is available from our BBS. In order to download it, you would need to call us and get the password.

Preeti
>
> We are developing a large, Forms 4.5 based application.
>
> Each form has a MDI toolbar (iconic buttons), and some forms have
> iconic buttons on them also.
>
> Whenever we try to put any type of "bubble hint" for the iconic
> buttons, we gen constant General Protection Faults (Under Windows 3.11 and Win NT).
>
> We tried SHOWHINT.DLL, with floating bubble help...
> We tried adding a display item on the toolbar to show the hint text...
> We tried displayinh the hint text on the message line...
>
> In every case, we trigger the hint display via a
> WHEN-MOUSE-ENTER trigger and remove the help via a
> WHEN-MOUSE-LEAVE trigger.
>
> The WHEN-MOUSE-ENTER trigger does the following...
>
> 1) Identify the item
> 2) Get it's Label
> 3) Display the label
>
> Nothing tricky, no timers, etc.
>
> The result is constant, intermittant GPFs.
>
> Any Ideas ?
>
> Thanks
>
> -Dan
  Received on Fri Apr 05 1996 - 00:00:00 CEST

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