[vorbis-dev] fix for oggdrop disappearing window

[Olaf van der Spek]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Anish Dave" <adave at undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca>
To: "Vorbis Dev" <vorbis-dev at xiph.org>
Sent: Sunday, May 06, 2001 5:48 AM
Subject: [vorbis-dev] fix for oggdrop disappearing window

> Hi,
>
> I don't know if this problem has been looked at yet.  The latest version
of
> oggdrop I found was at
> http://www.vorbis.com/files/beta4/windows/oggdrop-1.0beta4.zip.  If you
whip
> the window quickly from right to left, the client mouse coordinate in
> WM_MOUSEMOVE *can* be negative and so the LOWORD and HIWORD macros will
cast
> the mouse coordinates to insanely high 64K-ish values.  Then the
> SetWindowPos moves the window into lala land never to be seen again.  I
> don't think windows should ever give you a neg client coordinate, but it
> does (maybe it's a win2k thing).

>From MSDN:
> Value of the low-order word of lParam. Specifies the x-coordinate of the
cursor. The coordinate is relative to the upper-left corner of the client
area.

So sure, negative is possible.
I'll also patch my version.
Would it maybe be possible to post a link to my version on the official
Vorbis page, clearly marking this as an unofficial version, so users can try
it?

>
> The attached patch just uses LOSHORT and HISHORT macros (signed versions
of
> the LO/HI WORD macros) instead.  Let me know if it makes sense.
>
> - btw, to reproduce the bug, grab the window and whip around like mad
until
> it disappears.
>
> Thanks,
> Anish Dave
> Comp Sci/Soft Eng
> Univ of Waterloo (recent grad!)
> adave at undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca
>

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