Re: Gnustep Applications blocking Adobe Applications on Windows...

[Adam Fedor]

On Wednesday, May 28, 2003, at 04:15 AM, Roland Schwingel wrote:
> > However, I have no idea, why opening a window (which is not so 
> uncommon ;-)
> > can block other apps. And if you say it's particularly Adobe apps,
> > methinks it has something to do with what Adobe is doing.
> Of course Adobe is doing not so nice things here, but IMHO it is also 
> bad
> when GNUstep code cannot coexist with applications like Photoshop or 
> Acrobat.
> And I am sure they will not change their code to adopt to GNUstep. Sun 
> had similar
> problems with JDK1.2 and they where forced to fix this... But to what 
> I know the window
> is redundant at all, so removing will cause no harm and fix this 
> oddity...
>
> Maybe it is the association of the created window to the dll or the 
> "GnustepBaseSocketHandler"
> windowclass also defined in this file, describing this windows class. 
> After creation there are no
> messages to this windows (at least gnustep_base_socket_handler() is 
> not called when Photoshop starts).
> I tried a lot of things changing this window but nothing helped....
>
> Any further thoughts?

I haven't been able to do anything about this. But since you probably 
use GNUstep on Windows as much as or more than anyone, I don't see a 
problem with taking this out and trying to find another way to handle 
sockets (if necessary) later on.