RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Shadow Framebuffer Test 12

[Suhaib Siddiqi <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>]

>> I have a couple of other programs which install and use their 
> own version of
> the cygwin DLL but,

What do you mean by __Use their own version of Cygwin1.dll__?????
You should never have multiple Cygwin1.dll on the same system.

Suhaib

> to my recollection, none of these were 
> installed after
> XWin. I am currently checking my paths and eliminating the 
> others in turn
> but would be interested to hear if there are any other 
> potential causes of
> this problem (previous test builds worked okay BTW)
> 
> Martin
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Harold Hunt [mailto:huntharo@msu.edu]
> Sent: 29 March 2001 02:41
> To: Cygx (E-mail)
> Subject: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Shadow Framebuffer Test 12
> 
> 
> I just posted Test 12 to my usual announcement page:
> http://www.msu.edu/~huntharo/xwin/shadow/
> 
> Test 12 is compiled with the Cygwin/XFree86 4.0.3 source 
> code; you must have
> Cygwin/XFree86 4.0.3 installed before you install Test 12.
> 
> Changes:
> 1) A great developer (John Fortin) once told me that
> 	the DDLOCK_NOSYSLOCK flag for IDirectDrawSurface_Lock
> 	was not introduced until DirectDraw4, which is not
> 	available for Windows NT 4.0.  Including that flag
> 	causes the surface lock to fail on NT 4.0.  I removed
> 	the flag from all calls to IDirectDrawSurface_Lock.
> 
> Please report to the list if you are running Windows NT 4.0 
> and you can run
> this test but you could not run previous tests.
> 
> Harold Hunt
>