pcb@basin03.cacs.usl.edu (Peter C. Bahrs) (01/22/91)
Actor is great. I wish it compiled. The OO design philosophies beat C++ any day (my opinion, no flames please). But, It just killed win3. I was using object graphics in the work window. I did not dissassociate the port (release hDC). I closed the window that had the open port. KABOOOM. Windows either froze or went back to c:\. In any case, every time I restarted windows, it went back to c:\. I found a cure (thought I would have to reinstall everything). Apparently, something was left in the fixed swapfile that made windows shut off. I killed the swapfile with norton utilites and removed the .par file. Phew! Windows came back up ok, actor works fine now and I created a new swapfile. My suggestion to Whitewater (they used to monitor this group): write a compiler. The power, flexibility, and simplicity of the Actor syntax and environment is awesome. However, the multithreaded envt. in windows seems to be a pain to an interpretive environment. /*----------- Thanks in advance... --------------------------------------+ | Peter C. Bahrs | | The USL-NASA Project | | Center For Advanced Computer Studies INET: pcb@swamp.cacs.usl.edu | | 2 Rex Street | | University of Southwestern Louisiana ...!uunet!dalsqnt!gator!pcb | | Lafayette, LA 70504 | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------*/
al@well.sf.ca.us (Alfred Fontes) (01/26/91)
pcb@basin03.cacs.usl.edu (Peter C. Bahrs) writes: >Actor is great. I wish it compiled. >... >I did not dissassociate the port (release hDC). I closed the window that >had the open port. KABOOOM. Windows either froze or went back to c:\. Compile vs. interpret isn't the issue. If you don't release the device context, you can always look forward to that "KABOOM".