ID Number: Q80780
1.00
WINDOWS
buglist1.00
Summary:
With the Visual Basic programming environment (VB.EXE) running and
with very low available Windows resources (0 to 1 percent), attempting
to load the GRAPH.VBX Visual Basic custom control will incorrectly
generate the following messages
Failed to open Graphics Server.
GSW.EXE must be available via the DOS path.
followed by another error message:
Can't load the custom control DLL: "C:\VB\GRAPH.VBX"
These messages incorrectly imply that the problem is that GSW.EXE is
not in the MS-DOS path, when in fact the custom control could not load
because of a lack of Windows 3.0 resources.
Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the GRAPH.VBX custom
control provided with Microsoft Professional Toolkit for Microsoft
Visual Basic programming system version 1.0 for Windows. We are
researching this problem and will post new information here as it
becomes available.
More Information:
A prerequisite to recreate this problem is to deplete Windows system
resources until the Program Manager Help About dialog box reports 1
percent or less resources available. To verify the level of resources
available, from the Program Manager Help menu, choose About.
One way to deplete Windows resources is to launch as many sessions of
NOTEPAD.EXE as possible before getting an error message (start Visual
Basic before all of the Notepad sessions).
Steps to Reproduce Problem
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With 1 percent or less resources available, the following procedure
will generate the above error messages:
1. From the File menu, choose New Project. Form1 will be created by
default.
2. From the File menu, choose Add File, and select the GRAPH.VBX
custom control.
Additional reference words: 1.00