Mathematika err:dc:DCE_FreeWindowDCE

[865news6854 at vortex.physik.uni-konstanz.de]

Andreas Mohr wrote:

> 865news6854 at vortex.physik.uni-konstanz.de wrote:
>> Hi folks,
> 
>> after a glitch-free installation of Mathematika 4.0 using wine-20010305
>> (congratulations, I am impressed with the progress over the last year!),
>> the MathKernel and the console-version math.exe seem to work fine, only
>> the proper Mathematica.exe notebook app fails with this error:
> 
>> err:dc:DCE_FreeWindowDCE [1264] GetDC() without ReleaseDC()!
> 
>> wine does not consequently exit but stays around, asking for an ctrl-\ or
>> kill. Has anybody seen this before? any experience with Mathematika. What
>> can I do? The documentation, although comprehensive, does not seem to
>> help me through this.
> 
>> Please get in touch with me if you have any suggestions.
> Hmm, that error is not necessarily the real problem.
> 
> To identify what the problem with that error message is, do:
> --debugmsg +relay &>logfile
> Search for the last GetDC() call before the error message,
> examine the ret= return address. If the return address is 0x4xxxxxxx, then
> it's Wine code which is misbehaving:
> Run winedbg instead of wine, use "disas 0x4xxxxxxx" to find out which
> function does the GetDC call, grep the Wine code for this function and
> find out why this function doesn't do a ReleaseDC before destroying the
> window (?).
> 
> Andreas Mohr
> 

Thanks for your reply!

Ok, I did that. The GetDC call before the error looks like this:

Call user32.252: GetDC(00001264) ret=00547633 fs=008f
Ret  user32.252: GetDC() retval=00000048 ret=00547633 fs=008f

So it is not wine code. What else can be done?

Regards,
Max