From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Bug: can not start a w32 GUI program from Emacs Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2006 19:22:41 +0100 Message-ID: <4596AE71.5090803@gmail.com> References: <4591C075.3040905@gmail.com> <45938DD6.6040307@gnu.org> <4595BC2E.2070501@gmail.com> <45968DF2.4090607@gmail.com> <4596A1A3.3040500@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1167502982 10039 80.91.229.12 (30 Dec 2006 18:23:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2006 18:23:02 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, jasonr@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Dec 30 19:23:00 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1H0irD-0001kc-Ff for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 30 Dec 2006 19:22:59 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1H0irC-0000DC-Rw for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 30 Dec 2006 13:22:58 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1H0ir1-0000Cj-AU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 30 Dec 2006 13:22:47 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1H0iqz-0000CK-Mk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 30 Dec 2006 13:22:46 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1H0iqz-0000CH-Hl for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 30 Dec 2006 13:22:45 -0500 Original-Received: from [80.76.149.212] (helo=ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1H0iqw-0000SG-Ty; Sat, 30 Dec 2006 13:22:43 -0500 Original-Received: from c83-254-145-24.bredband.comhem.se ([83.254.145.24]:65181 helo=[127.0.0.1]) by ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1H0iqu-0005pX-6M; Sat, 30 Dec 2006 19:22:41 +0100 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (Windows/20061207) Original-To: Eli Zaretskii In-Reply-To: X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 0665-0, 2006-12-29), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1H0iqu-0005pX-6M. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net 1H0iqu-0005pX-6M 7be91c026256cb117c29402774e77935 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:64510 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii wrote: >>>> It takes quite a while for this to show up. Task Manager says that >>>> explorer.exe holds 9,999 GDI objects when it does and each menu access >>>> adds 4 to that figure (before it hits the roof). >>>> >>>> >>> I cannot reproduce this ``4 objects for each menu access'' problem: on >>> my system, the count goes back down after the menu is closed. >>> >>> >> Did you turn StickyKeys on? >> > > No, of course not. Are you saying that the problem with start-process > happens only when StickyKeys are on? > I am saying that it is a bug in MS Windows that is there only when StickyKeys is on. When StickyKeys are on 4 GDI obj are lost on each menu access. > >> I hardly ever use explorer. >> > > Then how come you accumulated so many GDI objects for explorer? > I think that depends on how MS Windows organize its windows. Some windows, like menu windows and message box windows are owned by explorer.