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Fix 64bit crashes on Windows when building with Visual Studio 2012. LPARAM in 32bit mode is LONG, but in 64bit mode it is uint64... There were casts to LONG in several places that were getting truncated with the new version of the compiler (but not gcc or older versions).
author bsmith@81767d24-ef19-dc11-ae90-00e081727c95
date Fri, 16 Nov 2012 21:18:20 +0000
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1 This package contains Dynamic Windows (dwindows) v 2.4 for OS/2 and eCS.
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3 It contains:
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5 dw.dll - main dwindows DLL
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6 dwcompat.dll - compatibility DLL (optional)
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7 dw.h - header file
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8 dw.lib - import library for functions in dw.dll
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9 dwcompat.lib - import library for functions in dwcompat.dll
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10 readme-os2.txt - this file
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12 This binary package was compiled with gcc 4.4.4.
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13 It requires libc064.dll available at ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/libc
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14 Dynamic Windows may take advantage of features from these packages:
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16 XCenter/eCenter with the System Tray plugin
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17 http://www.eros2.info/systray_widget_en.shtml
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19 Generalized Bitmap Module - For additional image formats
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20 http://heikon.home.tlink.de/
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22 -- Special notes for version 2.4 --
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23 Version 2.4 is starting a transition to Unicode on OS/2. Warp 4 and
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24 later have fairly decent support for UTF-8 via codepage 1208, however
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25 there are some known input problems, which shall be worked around
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26 in future versions. For English or non-input applications Unicode
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27 is the recommended version, however for applications that have not
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28 been converted to UTF-8 or which are experiencing input problems,
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29 a non-Unicode version of the DLL is included.