DestroyWindow behavior differences between Win9x and Win2k/xp
Juan Lang
juan.lang at gmail.com
Mon Mar 10 14:11:09 CDT 2008
> I'm looking into a crash of Master Of Orion II on exit (both in Wine and
> Windows XP). The problem appears to be that the program is attempting to
> do a DestroyWindow on a different thread. This is not allowed by our
> code and that behavior is backed up by MSDN documentation. This behavior
> was allowed on Windows 9x however. I have confirmed that removing the
> thread check allows the app to exit cleanly, but of course that is not
> an acceptable fix.
On the contrary, if Windows (in any version) allows it, and an app
depends on it, then we have to emulate it. A test case that passes on
Win9x that demonstrates the problem is probably sufficient to show
that the check should be removed.
--Juan
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