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From: Andris Pavenis <pavenis AT latnet DOT lv>
To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: RHIDE freezes with Windows XP
Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 19:11:43 +0300
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On Thursday 14 April 2005 17:45, Mircea Pasoi wrote:
> I haven't had the chance to see if this "bug" was already discussed,
> so please excuse me if my question already has been answered. I use
> DJGPP 2.0.3 with RHIDE 1.4.9 under Windows XP. Whenever i work in
> fullscreen mode and i'm debugging, at the moment i press the F7 or F8
> or F4 key (or anything debug related) and i receive a message from the
> "outside" (for example a Yahoo! Messenger window pops up and causes my
> DJGPP to go into window-mode) the whole computer freezes. I mean, a
> black screen appears and nothing works any more, and i have to reboot.
> I've very surprised at this because i find Windows XP SP2 pretty
> stable. I've tried using RHIDE 1.5.0 and the same thing happens. Even
> more, RHIDE 1.5.0 usually crashes when i open files after a while.
> Could anyone please explain to me why is this happening?

I haven't seen yet version of RHIDE which works reliably under WinXP.
In any case all versions up to 1.5.0 are highly unstable under XP. I have some 
my own build (TV-2.0.3, GDB-6.3, etc) , but also that is not stable enough, 
so I'm not going to release it.

Andris