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echo: os2prog
to: Peter Fitzsimmons
from: Paul Marchildon
date: 1994-09-20 20:41:00
subject: First BC prog

PF>  DS>   I have started going through the Real-World 
PF>  DS> Programming for OS/2 2.1 and I have already stumbled.  
PF>  DS> The return from the hWndFrame = WinCreateStdWindow 
PF>  DS> function is 0. (I left out all the parameters just for
PF> 
PF> You didn't post enough code to go on,  but a common mistake 
PF> is to ask for a resource (FCF_MENU or FCF_ICON,  for 
PF> example), and then not have such resource defined in your 
PF> *.RC file (or even worse, you completely forget to 
PF> compile/attach the resources).

I had a similar problem with BC/2, when trying to create a child
window. I kept getting a null handle returned, instead of a valid child
window handle. I could find nothing wrong with the code. I then
purchased the WATCOM compiler, the program compiled and ran fine. Go
figure.

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