Re: [AD] [WIN] Fix for the blank screen problem under WinXP

["Javier Gonzalez" <Xavier_Gonzalez@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> The attached patch fixes the blank screen problem under WinXP. Windows
> silently repainted the background of the window in black under WinXP,
> although we are in exclusive fullscreen mode.

Hopefully ;)

> Special thanks to Javier Gonzalez who came up with the critical idea (to
> intercept the WM_ERASEBKGND message) and spent many hours yesterday
testing
> the fix.

Thanks, even though you made like 90% of the work :)

> It's the second time we were tracking a major bug which occured on Win NT
> kernels but not on Win 9x kernels (remember the Win2k keyboard bug). They
> are really different operating systems with the same name.

Indeed, Win9x is a lot more error tolerable (is that the right english
word?) than Win NT/2k/XP