DestroyWindow behavior differences between Win9x and Win2k/xp

[Alexandre Julliard]

"Juan Lang" <juan.lang at gmail.com> writes:

>>  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.

If the app crashes on XP then it's fairly reasonable for it to crash on
Wine too. The Win9x design (or lack thereof) is not something we want to
support in general.

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Alexandre Julliard
julliard at winehq.org