Problem when exiting program

come on, no replies?

I have no idea what could be causing that, but I think it could very well be a Windows bug. I do quite often get a "dead" window button left in my taskbar after a program exits (though ususally without title, simply an empty grey box). And it''s not just my own programs that do this, e.g. Windows Media Player often do this, the standard Windows screensavers too... The list goes on...

Yeah that happens to me sometimes I dont thiink its related with your program.

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Make sure you:

a) DestroyWindow()
b) PostQuitMessage()
c) actually exit the message loop


If you miss any of those, you can get that problem. Simple test is to try one of the samples from the SDK - if they do it, its not your fault, if they don''t, it is and you should copy what they do.

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Be sure to
->Release() all DX objects that you created
in reverse order of creation, before you exit the program.
Normally, any DX object that created other DX objects *should*
release these when destroyed, but maybe it''s a bug.

I had this problem, too. After I did what I just advised you,
everything went allright.

Im not sure sure _why_ the gray box appears, but it is a Windows internal problem and is not a big deal. Many apps cause it at some time or the other.

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